Bible Reading Plan

2 Kings 23:36-24:20

Habakkuk 1

Chapter 1

Chaldeans Used to Punish Judah

¹ The ^(C1)pronouncement which Habakkuk the prophet saw:

^2 (C1)How long, LORD, have I called for help,
And You do not hear?
I cry out to You, "Violence!"
Yet You do ^(C2)not save.

³ Why do You make me ^(C1)see disaster,
And make me look at destitution?
Yes, ^(C2)devastation and violence are before me;
^(C3)Strife exists and contention arises.

⁴ Therefore the ^(C1)Law ^(F1)is ignored,
And justice ^(F2)is never upheld.
For the wicked ^(C2)surround the righteous;
Therefore justice comes out ^(C3)confused.

⁵ "^(C1)Look among the nations! Watch!
Be horrified! ^(C2)Be frightened speechless!
For I am accomplishing ^(C3)a work in your days—
You would not believe it even if ^(F1)you were told!

⁶ "For behold, I am ^(C1)raising up the Chaldeans,
That ^(F1)grim and impetuous people
Who march ^(F2)throughout the earth,
To ^(C2)take possession of dwelling places that are not theirs.

⁷ "They are terrifying and ^(C1)feared;
Their ^(C2)justice and ^(F1)authority ^(F2)originate with themselves.

⁸ "Their ^(C1)horses are faster than leopards,
And quicker than ^(C2)wolves in the evening.
Their ^(F1)horsemen charge along,
Their ^(F1)horsemen come from afar;
They fly like an ^(C3)eagle ^(F2)swooping down to devour.

⁹ "All of them come for violence.
^(F1)Their horde of ^(C1)faces moves forward.
They gather captives like sand.

¹⁰ "They ^(C1)make fun of kings,
And dignitaries are an object of laughter to them.
They ^(C2)laugh at every fortress,
Then ^(C3)heap up dirt and ^(F1)capture it.

¹¹ "Then they fly along like the ^(C1)wind and pass on.
But they will be held ^(C2)guilty,
They whose ^(C3)strength is their god."

¹² Are You not from ^(C1)time everlasting,
LORD, my God, my Holy One?
We will not die.
You, LORD, have ^(C2)appointed them to deliver judgment;
And You, O ^(C3)Rock, have destined them to punish.

¹³ Your eyes are too ^(C1)pure to look at evil,
And You cannot look at harm favorably.
Why do You ^(C2)look favorably
At those who deal ^(C3)treacherously?
Why are You ^(C4)silent when the wicked ^(C5)swallow up
Those more righteous than they?

¹⁴ Why have You made people like the fish of the sea,
Like crawling things that have no ruler over them?

¹⁵ The Chaldeans ^(C1)bring all of them up with a hook,
^(C2)Drag them away with their net,
And gather them together in their fishing net.
Therefore they rejoice and are joyful.

¹⁶ Therefore they offer a sacrifice to their net
And ^(F1)burn incense to their fishing net,
Because through ^(C1)these things their ^(F2)catch is ^(F3)large,
And their food is ^(F4)plentiful.

¹⁷ Will they therefore empty their ^(C1)net,
And continually ^(C2)slay nations without sparing?

2 Corinthians 10

Chapter 10

Paul Confronts the Corinthians

¹ Now ^(C1)I, Paul, myself ^(C2)urge you by the ^(C3)meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who ^(C4)am ^(F1)meek when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent!² I ask that ^(C1)when I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I intend to be courageous against ^(C2)some, who regard us as if we walked ^(C3)according to the flesh.³ For though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage battle ^(C1)according to the flesh,⁴ for the ^(C1)weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but ^(F1)divinely powerful ^(C2)for the destruction of fortresses.⁵ We are destroying arguments and all ^(C1)arrogance raised against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the ^(C2)obedience of Christ,⁶ and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever ^(C1)your obedience is complete.

^7 (F1)(C1)You are looking at ^(F2)things as they are outwardly. ^(C2)If anyone is confident in himself that he is Christ's, have him consider this again within himself, that just as he is Christ's, ^(C3)so too are we.⁸ For if ^(C1)I boast somewhat ^(F1)more about our ^(C2)authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be put to shame,^9 (F1)for I do not want to seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.¹⁰ For they say, "His letters are weighty and strong, but his ^(F1)personal presence is ^(C1)unimpressive and ^(C2)his speech contemptible."¹¹ Have such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when absent, such persons we are also in deed when present.

¹² For we do not presume to rank or compare ourselves with ^(F1)some of those who ^(C1)commend themselves; but when they ^(F2)measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they have no understanding.¹³ But we will not boast ^(C1)beyond our measure, but ^(F1)(C2)within the measure of the ^(F2)domain which God assigned to us as a measure, to reach even as far as you.¹⁴ For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we did not reach to you, for ^(C1)we were the first to come even as far as you in the ^(C2)gospel of Christ;¹⁵ not boasting ^(C1)beyond our measure, that is, in ^(C2)other people's labors, but with the hope that as ^(C3)your faith grows, we will be, ^(F1)within our ^(F2)domain, ^(C4)enlarged even more by you,¹⁶ so as to ^(C1)preach the gospel even to ^(C2)the regions beyond you, and not to boast ^(F1)(C3)in what has been accomplished in the domain of another.¹⁷ But ^(C1)THE ONE WHO BOASTS IS TO BOAST IN THE LORD.¹⁸ For it is not the one who ^(C1)commends himself that is approved, but the one ^(C2)whom the Lord commends.