Read the Bible in a Year

Other Bible-Reading Plans

• Search for Bible reading plans on Altavista
• Several Bible reading plans: chronological, historical, etc.
• Sabbath School Network
• Read the Bible in One Year taking 30 minutes per day
  This one also uses a nice three-track format. Two chapters from the Old Testament, one from the New, and one from the wisdom books. The minor prophets are folded in with the wisdom track to lengthen it. One interesting feature is that the Psalms are split up, so that even after reading a long difficult book like Job, there are more Psalms to read later.
• Daily Bible Reading
  This plan goes straight through the Bible, which I don't recommend. If you start the plan in January, you don't start reading the New Testament until October.
• Southern Baptist Convention
  This web site keeps track of your progress and starts you up where you left off if you miss a few days, weeks, or even months.
• 52-Week Plan
  This fascinating plan was recommended to us by our own Pastor Johnny Johnston. This plan has you reading between two and six chapters every day. Every week you'll read from each of seven different sections of the Bible: Torah, history, Psalms, poetry, prophets, gospels, and epistles. It's different and reportedly quite effective.
• ESV Bible RSS Feeds
  Your chapter a day in an RSS feed instead of email.
• Alternating Old and New Testament Books
  Genesis, 1 Corinthians, Exodus, 2 Corinthians, etc. through Job, Revelation, then Psalms, Matthew, Proverbs, Mark, etc. until Acts, then minor prophets, Romans, you're done. It does have stretches as long as 22 days in the OT (not counting Psalms) before coming back to the NT. Still, a reasonable approach.
• Read the Bible in a Year?
  An excellent article from Adventist Review about the problems you'll encounter when resolving to read the entire Bible.
• Bible Schedule for the New Believer
  John, some of Genesis, some of Exodus, a little piece of Leviticus, Romans, 1 John, then the entire New Testament straight through, then any program to read the entire Bible straight through. I do have to agree that reading a few key passages from the Old Testament is helpful before reading Paul's epistles.
• Chronological Bible Reading Schedule
  Read 2-3 chapters from the Old Testament and one chapter from the New Testament in the order in which the events happened.
• Bible Reading Chart Divided Up In Daily OT and NT Readings
  Split the Bible into three sections: Genesis through Job, Psalms through Malachi, Matthew through Revelation. The New Testament is broken similar to my plan. Read 1-2 chapters from each section each day.
• Bible Reading.com 52-Week Plan
  The same 52-week plan listed above. This is the original site. You can print the schedule as a PDF file.
• 13 Different Bible Reading Plans
• Ten-Minute Plan
  Four tracks: OT, NT, Psalms, and Proverbs. Read 1-2 chapters in the OT, one chapter in the NT, and a few verses each in Psalms and Proverbs. On first glance, Psalm 119 seems to be divided pretty poorly. I think this may be indended as an 80-verse-per-day plan.
• Margie Reads the Bible: A Bible-Reading Plan for Slackers
  A brilliant article about the problems you'll encounter when trying to read through the Bible. Includes a link to a "Read Through the Bible Program for Shirkers and Slackers." This is similar to the 52-week plan. The nice thing is that the passages are undated. Just choose a Monday passage, read it, and check it off. The program is a PDF file that you can print out.



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Last updated Monday 3 August 2009