Here’s the plan I like to use for reading through the Bible. I built it a few years age for the Rightly Divided Blog, and it’s the best I’ve been able to come up with so far.
I wanted to keep things as simple as possible while also mixing up the readings a bit.
Here’s the basic idea:
* Three chapters a day, one Old Testament, one Psalm, one New Testament.
* Old Testament books follow a roughly chronological order (which mixes us the history and prophetic books).
* New Testament series rotates (Gospel, Paul, General Epistles).
At this pace (reading six times a week) you will read the Old Testament in two-and-a-half years, the Psalms more than twice a year, and the New Testament one-and-a-half times a year.
Here are the orders to read the books:
Old Testament
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
Job
Joshua
Judges
Ruth
1 Samuel
2 Samuel
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
1 Kings
Obadiah
Joel
2 Kings
Jonah
Amos
Hosea
1 Chronicles
Isaiah
2 Chronicles
Micah
Nahum
Zephaniah
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Habakkuk
Daniel
Ezekiel
Ezra
Haggai
Zechariah
Esther
Nehemiah
Malachi
New Testament
Matthew
Romans
Hebrews
Mark
1&2 Corinthians
James
Luke
Galatians
Ephesians
Philippians
Colossians
1 & 2 Peter
John
1 & 2 Thessalonians
Philemon
1, 2, & 3 John
Acts
1 & 2 Timothy
Titus
Jude
Revelation
If anyone wants to make this list pretty to download and keep in your Bible, let me know and I’ll include a link.
Blessed reading! PrBW
Collect for the Word
Blessed Lord, who hast caused all Holy Scriptures to be written for our learning, grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of Thy holy Word we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life, which Thou hast given us in our Savior Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
