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Introduction
Bible Reading Schedules
Frequently Asked Questions
Is There a Charge for This?
Why 5 years?
How to Use the Reading Schedules
What do I do after 5 years?
Which Bible?
How are the books ordered in
the reading schedule?
Information on different translations
Which language?
Can I make my own reading schedule?
Bible Information on the Web
The bible reading schedules provided here allow you to spend just 5 minutes a day reading the bible, 5 days a week. After 5 years, you'll have finished the entire bible!
Revised Standard Version (RSV) translation -- not currently available
New American Standard (NASB) translation
New Living Translation (NLT)
King James Version (KJV)
New King James Version (NKJV)
21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
New International Version (NIV) translation
Well, not really--no one has asked me a question yet. But this is a convenient format for providing information about the bible reading schedules provided on these pages.
No, it's completely free. Feel free to visit your chosen bible schedule daily.
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How many times have your read the entire bible in the past 5 years? Have you ever read through the entire bible? Yeah, me too!
The other bible reading schedules I've found (see Bible Information on the Web, below) are usually 1, 2, or 3 year schedules, with readings every day (including weekends). I find these kinds of schedules inconvenient for a couple of reasons. First, the passages are too long and take too much time to read on a daily basis (I'm busy). Second, my schedule varies a lot from the weekdays and the weekends--so I would never get around to the weekend readings.
Hence I decided to create a bible reading schedule that was only for weekdays, with each passage only taking about 5 minutes to read. I figure I can manage to keep up with that--with, the end result that I will have read the entire bible in 5 years. I figure this is better than not having read the entire bible in the next 5 years.
Choose the translation you would like to read and follow the link to that schedule. Once you're at the web page with the schedule, bookmark that page. Then just visit it daily and hit the link for the next bible passage.
You'll note that the links in the schedule take you to another web site--the www.gospelcom.net site. Their bible gateway service allows free bible passage lookup (in multiple languages). They also allow linking to there site. Hence, I combine the two--the bible reading schedules have links for every passage in the bible.
For some books, you'll see the worth "Catholic" in the far right-hand column--this indicates that particular book is only included in Catholic bibles, not protestant ones.
I suggest you start over again at the beginning! Perhaps read a different translation. That way, you'll read the bible every 5 years for the rest of your life.
The bible schedule presents all the books of the Catholic bible. The Catholic bible has 46 books in the Old Testament, whereas protestant bibles have only 39. The seven additional books included in Catholic Bibles are Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach, and Baruch--these books are marked as "Catholic" in the reading schedules, should you wish to skip them. Catholic Bibles also include additions to the Books of Esther and Daniel which are not found in Protestant Bibles--however, I haven't captured these additions in the reading schedules.. These books are called the deuterocanonical books. Both Catholic and protestant bibles have 27 books in the New Testament.
Note that all of the Catholic-only books are always provided in the New American Bible (NAB) translation. This is due to my inability to find these books in any other translation.
Note to Catholics: In the United States, three versions of the Bible may presently be used in the liturgy: The New American Bible, the Revised Standard Version, and the Jerusalem Bible.
The books are arranged in Canon order. The exception is the New Testament. Since the four gospels tell a similar story, some of the other New Testament books are interspersed between the gospels to keep it interesting.
Short descriptions of each translation can be found here.
All the bible schedules link to a passage in English. Note that the bible gateway supports many other languages besides English, so you could make a schedule in another language quite simply by copying my HTML and doing a search and replace on the "language=english" string to specify your preferred language. Let me know if you put up a schedule in a different language--I'd add a link to your page from mine.
Yes. Feel free to copy my HTML and change it however you like. However, if you want to create your own schedule, email me and let me know--I can email you a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet of all the bible passages that you might find useful. If you do this, please consider making a donation to the Fanconi Anemia Research Foundation.
First, the good people at gospelcom.net, who make this bible reading schedule possible, and their Bible Gateway. They also have a daily bible reading page, which allows you to read the entire New Testament in one year.
Here are some bible reading schedules:
3 Year bible
reading schedule
1 Year bible
reading schedule
Different kinds
of bible reading schedules
Here are some bible software links:
Bible Library
for Catholics
Biblesoft.com
Bibleworks.com
Logos Bible Software
Online Publishing
SwordSearcher
Here is a link to some other classic Christian books: CCEL.org
Verse A Day: have a bible verse mailed to you every day. There is also the Daily Manna service, which also has options for verses in difference translations and languages.
Bible Commentary: The Matthew Henry Commentaries (both complete and concise). Again from the good people at gospelcom.net. You can also find commentaries at bibletexts.com, and yet more at the Blue Letter Bible site.
Finding other bible information: I recommend a search using Google.com. Search for things such as "bible reading schedule" or "bible commentaries" to find many, many links to these items.
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Last updated: 20 Feb 2004