Bible Reading System

A modified version of Professor Grant Horner’s System

Here’s a link to Professor Grant Horner’s original “10 Chapter” system: http://www.challies.com/sites/all/files/attachments/professor-grant-horners-bible-reading-system.pdf

I modified all his lists except 1, 2 and 6 to avoid reading Proverbs and Acts over and over again.

  
      1
      2
      3
      4
      5
      6
      7
      8
      9
    
      89
      187
      85
      86
      93
      150
      112
      216
      171
    
      Matt-28
      Gen-50
      Acts-28
      Philip-4
      Job-42
      Psalm
      Ezra-10
      Josh-24
      Isaiah-66
    
      Mark-16
      Ex-40
      Rom-16
      Col-4
      Eccl-12
       
      Neh-13
      Judg-21
      Jere-52
    
      Luke-24
      Lev-27
      1Cor-16
      1 Thess-5
      Songs-8
       
      Esther-10
      Ruth-4
      Lament-5
    
      John-21
      Numb-36
      2Cor-13
      2 Thess-3
      Prov-31
       
      Daniel-12
      1 Sam-31
      Ezek-48
    
      Duet-34
      Gal-6
      1 Tim-6
       
      Hosea-14
      2 Sam-24
       
      Eph-6
      2 Tim-4
       
      Joel-3
      1 Kgs-25
       
      Titus-3
       
      Amos-9
      2 Kgs-25
       
      Philem-1
       
      Obad-1
      1 Chr-29
       
      Heb-13
       
      Jonah-4
      2 Chr-36
       
      James-5
       
      Micah-7
       
      1 Peter-5
       
      Nahum-3
       
      2 Peter-3
       
      Habb-3
       
      1 John-5
       
      Zeph-3
       
      2 John-1
       
      Hag-2
       
      3 John-1
       
      Zech-14
       
      Jude-1
       
      Mal-4
       
      Reve-22

How to use this guide:

Cut out bookmarks above
Put each bookmark in your Bible @ verse 1 of the first chapter on the bookmark. So, Bookmark 1 is at Matthew 1:1, bookmark 2 is at Genesis 1:1, etc.
Starting reading the first chapter of each section in the order of the bookmarks. So your first series is: #1-Matthew 1:1; #2-Genesis 1:1; #3-Acts 1:1; #4-Philippians 1:1; #5-Job 1:1; #6-Psalms 1:1; #7-Ezra 1:1; #8-Joshua 1:1 and #9-Isaiah 1:1.
When you finish each bookmark series once, go back to the beginning of that bookmark series and start over. Done this way, when you finish the longest series (#8-216 chapters) once, you’ll have read the shortest series (#3-85 chapters) more than twice and all the other series more than once.

Good review of different Bible translations and paraphrases: from http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Bible/BibleType.htm (pdf)

The Bibles I most often refer to:

NIV – New International Version
The Message – Paraphrase by Eugene Peterson

Other Bibles I reference:

NLT – New Living Translation
NKJ – New King James
ESV – English Standard Version
NASB – New American Standard Bible

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