Well, it takes patient (special the books you mentioned), and in my case more than 1 year. At moment me and my wife are in Psalm 116. I think we startet in Jan. 2014.
Go ahead!Reading the whole Bible
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Well, it takes patient (special the books you mentioned), and in my case more than 1 year. At moment me and my wife are in Psalm 116. I think we startet in Jan. 2014.
Go ahead!
I have read the Bible, from the first page to the last, i am addicted to Bible. First time it is really difficult but with passage of time God helps you. I encourage everyone to try. Surely there is blessing and you grow in the Lord as you keep reading the word of God.
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Stone5524
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I've read it about 5 times. I underline every book I read with a red pen...something that helped me quit smoking cigarettes.
Truth be told though...I'm largely convinced that if you ask his for the holy spirit and pray to Jesus...the bible is not needed. God just inscribes the important stuff in your mind and soul.
Truth be told though...I'm largely convinced that if you ask his for the holy spirit and pray to Jesus...the bible is not needed. God just inscribes the important stuff in your mind and soul.
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Tintin
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You're right in saying that the Bible isn't necessarily needed to become a Christian, but to deepen your faith and grow, the Bible is absolutely necessary. God gave us His book of truth. If we call ourselves His followers and He's our Lord, we had better d@mn well read it!
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Tintin
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RoryR9
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Try Biblegateways reading plan its quite good, you feel like you've accomplished something after reading each day as it gives you a metre to show your progress. It also goes through books alternately from Genesis through to Revelations or you could do it from Genesis to Revelation..
Check the link below
https://www.biblegateway.com/reading-plans/
If you'd like to we can start from Genesis together and discuss it over the forums? I'm sure there'd be more who would like to get in on the study.
RoryR9
Check the link below
https://www.biblegateway.com/reading-plans/
If you'd like to we can start from Genesis together and discuss it over the forums? I'm sure there'd be more who would like to get in on the study.
RoryR9
Finished Psalms the other night and remembered last time checking in on this topic you were at Psalms too sir Tintin. Lol not trying to make it a competition or anything lol, but was wondering if I got to Proverbs first since we were about at the same place Sir Tin lol. Though obviously I been taking reading lately at a snail's pace. Lol Maybe a snail race to finish the Bible cover to cover I suppose lol.
Gave me a little motivation to read through the last part of it in a sitting though so glad of that encouragement from ya'll and may Jesus keep you all well, praise Jesus.
Psalm 150
1 Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.
[SUP]2 [/SUP]Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.
[SUP]3 [/SUP]Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
[SUP]4 [/SUP]Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
[SUP]5 [/SUP]Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
[SUP]6 [/SUP]Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.
Gave me a little motivation to read through the last part of it in a sitting though so glad of that encouragement from ya'll and may Jesus keep you all well, praise Jesus.
Psalm 150
1 Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.
[SUP]2 [/SUP]Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.
[SUP]3 [/SUP]Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
[SUP]4 [/SUP]Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
[SUP]5 [/SUP]Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
[SUP]6 [/SUP]Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.
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Tintin
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Hi brother. I'm actually in the early parts of Isaiah now. Oops. The books in between didn't take long.
Nice, Isaiah is a good read indeed. Good to hear your reading through the Bible is going well Sir Tin, praise Jesus.
Lol doh, guess I have been at a snails pace, lol will have to pick it up some on the Proverbs, but that's okay, Proverbs is a really fun book of the Bible.
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Lost_sheep
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I'm working my way through a "One Year Bible Reading Plan" I found online. You read a few chapters of two books in the OT and a few chapters of a couple books in the NT, every day. It's not a bad way to do it, I think, and I've been able to keep up with it fine. Sometimes, depending on what I am reading, I jump way ahead. I really enjoyed Exodus, so I went through that way ahead of schedule, but that put me behind in Proverbs.
Hi. Yes I have. But I have found that the old testament presents a different god than the new testament. For example. In 1 Sam. 15:2-3, the writer of that book has god commanding Saul through Samuel to "Now go and strike Amalek and utterly destroy all that he has, and do not spare him; but put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey." I really cannot understand god telling someone to kill "woman, child and infants"; and then the Light of the world saying, "love your enemies"...so, I just go with the Light. : )
Finished Song of Solomon last night and began on Isaiah. Lol just checking in to see how you're coming along in our unofficial snail race to read the full Bible Sir Tintin. No pressure of course, just good encouragement and motivation.
Heh I kinda power read through Ecclesiastes. It speaks so much to me, I always get absorbed in it.
Ecclesiastes 1
1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
[SUP]2 [/SUP]Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
[SUP]3 [/SUP]What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
[SUP]4 [/SUP]One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
[SUP]5 [/SUP]The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
[SUP]6 [/SUP]The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
[SUP]7 [/SUP]All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
[SUP]8 [/SUP]All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
[SUP]9 [/SUP]The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
[SUP]10 [/SUP]Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
[SUP]11 [/SUP]There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
[SUP]12 [/SUP]I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
[SUP]13 [/SUP]And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
[SUP]14 [/SUP]I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
[SUP]15 [/SUP]That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
[SUP]16 [/SUP]I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
[SUP]17 [/SUP]And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
[SUP]18 [/SUP]For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Heh I kinda power read through Ecclesiastes. It speaks so much to me, I always get absorbed in it.
Ecclesiastes 1
1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
[SUP]2 [/SUP]Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
[SUP]3 [/SUP]What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
[SUP]4 [/SUP]One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
[SUP]5 [/SUP]The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
[SUP]6 [/SUP]The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
[SUP]7 [/SUP]All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
[SUP]8 [/SUP]All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
[SUP]9 [/SUP]The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
[SUP]10 [/SUP]Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
[SUP]11 [/SUP]There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
[SUP]12 [/SUP]I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
[SUP]13 [/SUP]And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
[SUP]14 [/SUP]I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
[SUP]15 [/SUP]That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
[SUP]16 [/SUP]I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
[SUP]17 [/SUP]And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
[SUP]18 [/SUP]For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
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Tintin
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Great to hear, brother!
Ecclesiastes is a great read. It's very humorous in places. And thought-provoking in all places. I'm nearing the end of the Book of Isaiah. But to be fair, it's a large book of the Bible. I've always loved Isaiah. Even as an 11 year old (when I read the Bible all the way through, for the first time).
Ecclesiastes is a great read. It's very humorous in places. And thought-provoking in all places. I'm nearing the end of the Book of Isaiah. But to be fair, it's a large book of the Bible. I've always loved Isaiah. Even as an 11 year old (when I read the Bible all the way through, for the first time).
Indeed Isaiah is an excellent book, one of my favorites. I actually read it by itself not long a go last year (made a little BDF topic on it). I pretty much just read the first page of Isaiah last night and then went to bed. I always really feel close to the character of Isaiah for some reason. Not just in his book, but also where he figures into the Books of Kings and Chronicles also keeping in mind the surrounding events. I see a sort of similarity between his time and generations and ours.
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didymos
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Reading the Bible cover to cover isn't a purpose in itself. If that's your goal you're bound to get too much focused on getting to the next page. It's important to read scripture, sure, and often, no doubt, but you should take time to 'digest' whatever you read. It's also important to pray for illumination of the Holy Spirit before you read, to let Him come into your heart and enligthen your understanding, then reading truly becomes a communication with the Almighty. Try to be IN the Word, daily, rather than just reading as much as you can. Let it be as David sings: Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path. (Ps. 119:105)
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wwjd_kilden
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I read the NT start to end and the OT end to end in two go's. Really struggled with the OT, but the good thing about it was that it was easier to keep track of who was who and what was going on.
I read the NT start to end and the OT end to end in two go's. Really struggled with the OT, but the good thing about it was that it was easier to keep track of who was who and what was going on.
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Not far behind ya. In Isaiah 26 myself. As your post is from two days ago, you're probably in Jeremiah by now. Happy reading! You too, GodisSalvation.
You can read the entire Bible in far less than a year. Give yourself an hour or two and read an entire book!! Not just 3 or 4 chapters. Reading the entire book will give you a better understanding of what's going on.