Bible Reading
January 1
The World English Bible
Jan.
1
Genesis
1
Gen
1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Gen
1:2 Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the
surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of
the waters.
Gen
1:3 God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
Gen
1:4 God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the
light from the darkness.
Gen
1:5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.
There was evening and there was morning, one day.
Gen
1:6 God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the
waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."
Gen
1:7 God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under
the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was
so.
Gen
1:8 God called the expanse sky. There was evening and there was
morning, a second day.
Gen
1:9 God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered
together to one place, and let the dry land appear;" and it was
so.
Gen
1:10 God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of
the waters he called Seas. God saw that it was good.
Gen
1:11 God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding
seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed
in it, on the earth;" and it was so.
Gen
1:12 The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their
kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind;
and God saw that it was good.
Gen
1:13 There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
Gen
1:14 God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to
divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for
seasons, and for days and years;
Gen
1:15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light
on the earth;" and it was so.
Gen
1:16 God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the
day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.
Gen
1:17 God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,
Gen
1:18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the
light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
Gen
1:19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
Gen
1:20 God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living
creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of
sky."
Gen
1:21 God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature
that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and
every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
Gen
1:22 God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and
fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
Gen
1:23 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
Gen
1:24 God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures
after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the
earth after their kind;" and it was so.
Gen
1:25 God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the
livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground
after its kind. God saw that it was good.
Gen
1:26 God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
Gen
1:27 God created man in his own image. In God's image he created
him; male and female he created them.
Gen
1:28 God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful,
multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish
of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing
that moves on the earth."
Gen
1:29 God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding
seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which
bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
Gen
1:30 To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and
to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I
have given every green herb for food;" and it was so.
Gen
1:31 God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very
good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
Jan.
1, 2
Matthew
1
Mat
1:1 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the
son of Abraham.
Mat
1:2 Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father of
Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers.
Mat
1:3 Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar. Perez
became the father of Hezron. Hezron became the father of Ram.
Mat
1:4 Ram became the father of Amminadab. Amminadab became the father
of Nahshon. Nahshon became the father of Salmon.
Mat
1:5 Salmon became the father of Boaz by Rahab. Boaz became the
father of Obed by Ruth. Obed became the father of Jesse.
Mat
1:6 Jesse became the father of David the king. David became the
father of Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah.
Mat
1:7 Solomon became the father of Rehoboam. Rehoboam became the
father of Abijah. Abijah became the father of Asa.
Mat
1:8 Asa became the father of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat became the
father of Joram. Joram became the father of Uzziah.
Mat
1:9 Uzziah became the father of Jotham. Jotham became the father of
Ahaz. Ahaz became the father of Hezekiah.
Mat
1:10 Hezekiah became the father of Manasseh. Manasseh became the
father of Amon. Amon became the father of Josiah.
Mat
1:11 Josiah became the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the
time of the exile to Babylon.
Mat
1:12 After the exile to Babylon, Jechoniah became the father of
Shealtiel. Shealtiel became the father of Zerubbabel.
Mat
1:13 Zerubbabel became the father of Abiud. Abiud became the father
of Eliakim. Eliakim became the father of Azor.
Mat
1:14 Azor became the father of Sadoc. Sadoc became the father of
Achim. Achim became the father of Eliud.
Mat
1:15 Eliud became the father of Eleazar. Eleazar became the father
of Matthan. Matthan became the father of Jacob.
Mat
1:16 Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, from
whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
Mat
1:17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen
generations; from David to the exile to Babylon fourteen generations;
and from the carrying away to Babylon to the Christ, fourteen
generations.
Mat
1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his
mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she
was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.
Mat
1:19 Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to
make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.
Mat
1:20 But 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, your wife, for that which
is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.
Mat
1:21 She shall bring forth a son. You shall call his name Jesus, for
it is he who shall save his people from their sins."
Mat
1:22 Now all this has happened, that it might be fulfilled which was
spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,
Mat
1:23 "Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring
forth a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;" which is, being
interpreted, "God with us."
Mat
1:24 Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord
commanded him, and took his wife to himself;
Mat
1:25 and didn't know her sexually until she had brought forth her
firstborn son. He named him Jesus.
