Formation Journal Reading Plan

18:13 He who gives answer before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

18:14 A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?

18:15 The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

18:16 A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.

18:17 He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him.

18:18 The lot settles disputes, and keeps strong ones apart.

18:19 A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city; and disputes are like the bars of a castle.

18:20 A man’s stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.

18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

18:22 Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

18:23 The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly.

18:24 A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

3:7 “To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:

3:8 “I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

3:9 Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie. Behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.

3:10 Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

3:11 I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

3:12 He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.

3:13 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.