THE COMPLETE BIBLE365BIBLE IN A YEAR / BOOK ORDER
Bible in a year reading plan
Read every chapter in the familiar order of the books, with a complete 365-day schedule and a place to pick up again.
Explore the full planSMALL STEPS. REAL DEPTH.
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Keep your own pace.
Choose a Bible reading plan for a short guided journey, the Gospels, or a complete year. Read each passage here, explore its context, and keep your place.
THE COMPLETE BIBLE / TWO WAYS THROUGH
A year with the whole story.
Two complete Bible reading plans. One familiar book order, one chronological overview. Start on any day and read each passage here.
THE COMPLETE BIBLE365CHRONOLOGICAL READING / STORY ORDER
Chronological Bible reading plan
Follow the broad movement from beginnings to the early church, with histories, poetry, and prophets grouped into reading stages.
Explore the full planWhich Bible reading plan is right for you?
Start small: the seven-reading plans give you a short passage, an original guide, and a question for each session. Stay with Jesus’ story: Through the Gospels follows the four Gospel accounts and ends in Acts 1. Read the whole Bible: choose one of the two annual schedules below, each covering all 66 books and 1,189 chapters.
A canonical plan follows the familiar book order from Genesis to Revelation. A chronological overview places books and sections alongside broad periods in the story. Both contain the same complete text. Choose the order that helps you return, and use the daily numbers as a sequence rather than a deadline.
What if I fall behind?
Continue with the next unread day. You do not need to double the next session or start the whole plan again. A 365-reading schedule can take longer than a calendar year. For a leap year, keep the extra day for rereading or catching up.
The annual plans divide the Bible into three or four complete chapters per day. Chapter lengths vary, so each day also shows a reading-time estimate. The aim is coverage with a clear place to return; understanding can continue after a day is marked complete.
A plan is a place to return to
Read the passage before the guide. Then choose one observation or question to keep. Mark a reading complete when you are ready to move on; the mark records your place, not the quality of your attention.
If a chapter takes two sittings, give it two sittings. If you miss a week, return to the next reading instead of trying to make up a debt. Short plans offer a focused beginning; the longer Gospel journey gives you space to follow a book’s unfolding story.
7 readingsFinding stillness
Seven readings on worry, limits and trust. Explore the setting of familiar words of peace and find a next step for everyday life.
THE OPENING READING
1A Psalm by David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall lack nothing.
2He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.
3He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
4Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
5You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.
6Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the LORD’s house forever.
EDITORIAL REFLECTION · NOT SCRIPTURE
A place to rest
The psalm moves from green pastures through a dark valley to a prepared table. The valley and the enemies remain within its picture of care. Notice the change in address: the speaker first talks about God, then speaks directly to him in the valley. Description becomes conversation. Read the psalm again and pause at the image closest to your present situation.
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7 readingsMeeting Jesus
Seven encounters with Jesus: his invitation, his attention to people and his call to love. With guidance through the text and questions for your own journey.
THE OPENING READING
14Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of God’s Kingdom,
15and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”
16Passing along by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, the brother of Simon, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.
17Jesus said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you into fishers for men.”
18Immediately they left their nets, and followed him.
19Going on a little further from there, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who were also in the boat mending the nets.
20Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.
EDITORIAL REFLECTION · NOT SCRIPTURE
An invitation
Mark first states Jesus’ message: God’s Kingdom has drawn near, and people are called to repentance and trust in the good news. Jesus then meets two pairs of brothers at work. Following him takes the concrete shape of names, nets and a place. Notice what the fishermen leave and whom they join. The story describes a new allegiance, not simply new information about religion.
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7 readingsEyes for the good
Seven readings on receiving, remembering and giving. Explore gratitude that also takes need and difficult days seriously.
THE OPENING READING
1By David. Praise the LORD, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name!
2Praise the LORD, my soul, and don’t forget all his benefits,
3who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,
4who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies,
5who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
EDITORIAL REFLECTION · NOT SCRIPTURE
Remember the good
The speaker calls on himself not to forget God’s benefits. The gifts named concern forgiveness, healing, rescue, compassion and renewed strength. Gratitude begins with remembrance and reaches beyond favorable circumstances. Pause where a gift awakens a memory. If a word instead brings longing or pain, that too can be named. The psalm does not have to be rewritten as a description of your present circumstances.
Continue with this plan90 readingsThe Gospels, one chapter at a time
Read the four Gospels and then Acts 1 in 90 stages. Every chapter has its own reading guide and a question that draws you closer to the text.
OPENING CHAPTER · FINAL SCENE
18Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this: After his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.
19Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.
20But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take to yourself Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.
21She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”
22Now all this has happened that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,
23“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel,” which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”
24Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took his wife to himself;
25and didn’t know her sexually until she had given birth to her firstborn son. He named him Jesus.
EDITORIAL REFLECTION · NOT SCRIPTURE
Matthew 1
Matthew 1 begins with a genealogy before moving into the account of Jesus’ birth. The closing scene is included here, with the full chapter in the first plan reading. Notice how the family history and the birth account introduce the person at the centre of the Gospel.
Matthew traces a family story through Abraham, David and the exile to Jesus. The focus then turns to Joseph, whose intended course changes after a message in a dream. Notice how the names Jesus and Immanuel interpret the beginning of this Gospel.
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