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Bible Reading

Chronological Bible Reading Schedule

Read the whole bible in a year, reading about 15 minutes per day.

This is the schedule that has been used on Purposeful Singleness for many years. Unfortunately the daily email mailing is no longer available. However, you can use the following links to download and print bookmarks of the schedule, one for the Old Testament and one for the New Testament, which are convenient to use in your Bible to mark where you’re currently reading:

  • Download Old Testament Schedule
  • Download New Testament Schedule

Characteristics of this schedule:

  1. The Bible books are placed in chronological order according to event rather than according to the date of writing.
  2. The schedule is arranged so that the reader reads through both the Old and New Testaments simultaneously. By the end of the year, the reader will have read through the entire Bible.
  3. For the most part, passages for each day are divided according to paragraph or breaks in the text. Where this is deviated from, an asterisk has been placed next to the reference to show that the thought continues in the next day’s reading.
  4. The Gospel of John has purposely been placed between Mark and Luke to give a break in reading the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) which are written very much in the same manner, and to put Luke’s two books together

An Alternative

I also highly recommend Reading God’s Story: A Chronological Daily Bible. It is published in the Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB) translation, which I’ve come to appreciate and enjoy. You can purchase it in hardcover, paperback, or Kindle version (which you can read via free apps from Amazon for your PC, Mac, as well as your Android or Apple smartphones

Other Bible Reading Plans

If you would like to explore other plans and schedules, consider one of these from other websites:

  • Bible Reading Plans from BibleGateway
  • Bible Reading Plans from Bible Study Tools
  • Bible Reading Plans and Devotionals from YouVersion
  • Bible Reading Plans from the Blue Letter Bible
  • Bible Reading Plans from Bible Plan
  • Bible Reading Plans from The Navigators
  • One Year Bible Online
  • Professor Grant Horner’s Bible Reading System here or here

One Year Bibles for Kindle or in Print

If you would prefer to read through the Bible in a book divided into daily Bible readings, there are a quite a few available, both in print and for the Kindle or Kindle apps, which are available for your computer as well as Apple and Android phones.

One Year Bibles:

[one-fourth-first][/one-fourth-first] [one-fourth][/one-fourth] [one-fourth][/one-fourth] [one-fourth][/one-fourth]

 

One Year Bibles Arranged in Chronological Order

[one-fourth-first][/one-fourth-first] [one-fourth][/one-fourth] [one-fourth][/one-fourth] [one-fourth][/one-fourth]

 

Kindle One Year Bibles

[one-fourth-first][/one-fourth-first] [one-fourth][/one-fourth] [one-fourth][/one-fourth] [one-fourth][/one-fourth]

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Pat

    January 5, 2016 at 11:53 pm

    Hello,
    I’ve been using your chronological Bible reading schedule for many years. The compact format made it simple for me to print and keep in my Bible.

    Is it possible to get the pdf’s for one year?

    Reply
    • Fern Horst

      January 6, 2016 at 11:16 am

      Hi Pat,

      Glad to hear you’ve been using the schedule for so many years!

      Have you seen this page?

      http://singleness.org/chronological-bible-reading-schedule/

      There are PDFs there of the chronological schedule as bookmarks to keep in your Bible, one for the OT and one for the NT.

      Or perhaps you are referring to this page from the old site:

      http://singleness.org/bible/brs.shtml

      If you’d like me to make that page into a PDF for you, I’ll be glad to, just let me know. Or, you can print directly from that page.

      God’s blessings as you continue to read!

      Reply

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