2025 Bible in a Year

Reading Plan

Reading to the kids:

Notes

  • 2025-05-20-Tue-Ps-19 is beautiful in KJV!
  • 2025-05-20-Tue-Ps-104: the Holy Spirit prayer: "Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth."
  • 2025-05-25-Sun-Gn-17: "I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect."
  • 2025-06-03-Tue-Gn-32: "I am not worthy of the truth."
  • 2025-06-10-Tue-Ex-06: Typology: "Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments"
  • 2025-06-12-Thu-Ex-13 "Matrix" means womb
  • 2025-06-22-Sun-Ex-29: blood on ear, the ears are consecrated to hear God's word according to the ICSB: "Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron..."
  • 2025-07-01-Tue-Lv-20: "Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the Lord your God."
  • 2025-07-06-Sun-Nm-06: is "turtles" rather than "turtledoves"
  • 2025-07-06-Sun-Nm-06-27: priestly blessing, and told the boys about how Ratzinger's parents used to bless him, cf. 2021-01-27-The Spirit of the Liturgy
  • 2025-07-25-Fri-Nm-24: "unicorn" rather than "wild ox" in KJV
  • 2025-07-29-Tue-Dt-04: "But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul."
  • 2025-08-03-Sun-Dt-11: make a mezuzah for our home: "And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates"
  • 2025-08-12-Tue-Dt-30: God's word is close: "But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it."
  • 2025-08-12-Tue-Dt-32: Insult: "thou art waxed fat, thou art grown fat"
  • 2025-08-27-Wed-Jos-22: "But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul."
  • 2025-09-13-Sat-Mt-06: The Our Father in the KJV text ends with the doxology! The irony!
  • 2025-10-23-Thu-2 Kgs-04: The woman who sells some oil to keep her sons out of debt servitude show how poor the people are and how close they are to utter destitution.
  • 2025-10-29-Wed-1 Chr-29: doxology
  • 2025-09-14-Sun-2 Sm-15: "to obey is better than sacrifice"
  • 2025-11-15-Sat-Jer-44: "queen of heaven"
  • 2025-11-15-Sat-Jer-46: "Carmel by the sea"
  • 2025-11-24-Mon-1 Mc-02: "none that put their trust in him shall be overcome"
  • 2025-11-27-Thu-1 Mc-03: "For the victory of battle standeth not in the multitude of an host; but strength cometh from heaven."
  • 2025-12-04-Thu-Jdt-08: "Therefore let us wait for salvation of him, and call upon him to help us, and he will hear our voice, if it please him."
  • 2025-12-06-Sat-Tb-04-11 on Almsgiving: "Give alms of thy substance; and when thou givest alms, let not thine eye be envious, neither turn thy face from any poor, and the face of God shall not be turned away from thee. If thou hast abundance give alms accordingly: if thou have but a little, be not afraid to give according to that little: For thou layest up a good treasure for thyself against the day of necessity. Because that alms do deliver from death, and suffereth not to come into darkness. For alms is a good gift unto all that give it in the sight of the most High."
  • 2025-12-06-Sat-Tb-04: "Honour thy father and thy mother in law, which are now thy parents"
  • 2025-12-07-Sun-Wis-05-20: Paul's armor imagery comes from here: "He shall put on righteousness as a breastplate, and true judgment instead of an helmet. He shall take holiness for an invincible shield. His severe wrath shall he sharpen for a sword, and the world shall fight with him against the unwise."
  • 2025-12-15-Mon-2 Tm-03: Avoid being like this! "Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."
  • 2025-12-17-Wed-Sir-01: Anger: "A furious man cannot be justified; for the sway of his fury shall be his destruction."
  • 2025-12-17-Wed-Sir-03: Avoid unnecessary curiosity: "Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shewed unto thee than men understand."
  • 2025-12-24-Wed-Sir-06: "Let thy mind be upon the ordinances of the Lord and meditate continually in his commandments"
  • 2025-12-24-Wed-Sir-07: Keep your investments close to you, or invest in things close to you: "Hast thou cattle? have an eye to them: and if they be for thy profit, keep them with thee."
  • 2025-12-24-Wed-Sir-12: Against Universalism: "For the most High hateth sinners, and will repay vengeance unto the ungodly, and keepeth them against the mighty day of their punishment."
  • 2025-12-24-Wed-Sir-13-12: how to deal with rich people
  • 2025-12-26-Fri-Sir-20: How are we best to share our wisdom? (cf. 2025-06-25-Rerum Novarum)"Wisdom that is hid, and treasure that is hoarded up, what profit is in them both?"
  • 2025-12-30-Tue-Sir-35-11: "Give unto the most High according as he hath enriched thee; and as thou hast gotten, give with a cheerful eye. For the Lord recompenseth, and will give thee seven times as much." (cf. Hannah's Children, 277)
  • "filthy lucre" is a great phrase

Themes

  • Justification
    • Saved by Grace/Faith
      • Mk-16: "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned."
      • Acts-15: "But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they."
      • Acts-16: "And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house."
      • Rom-04: "Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace"
      • Rom-08: "For we are saved by hope"
      • Rom-10: "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."
      • 1 Cor-15-1: "Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain."
      • Gal-02: "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified."
      • ==1 Thes-04: "fallen asleep believing in him"==
    • Saved by Works
      • Rom-02: "For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified."
      • 1 Tm-04: "Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee."
      • Sir-12: "For the most High hateth sinners, and will repay vengeance unto the ungodly, and keepeth them against the mighty day of their punishment."

* in the context of the Mosaic Law

Created: 2025-06-13-Fri
Updated: 2025-12-31-Wed