Read through the Bible

I’ve read chapters and verses from various books throughout my childhood, but I never read the whole thing cover to cover, so here I go :)

It really isn’t difficult to read through the bible. I have done it many times since childhood; I have read many different versions. Just do it, and stop thinking about it.

I suggest picking an easy version to read first, such as The Message, The Good News, of The Living Bible. If you’ve been struggling for a long time, why not try a different version from what you’ve been reading? It will help bring some freshness to you. Start from a book you’ve never read before.

There are a number of different ways to read the bible. You can go from cover to cover, you can read it in chronological order, you can read it by book types (Pentateuch, History Books, Major prophets, Minor prophets, Gospels etc), or just randomly pick books to read at a time.

that should count as a night prayer..right?

Read Bible by end of 2009

I am still plugging away. I’m not as faithful as I would like to be but I’ve not completely stopped either. I’m determined to make it through.

im not even religious but im interested in christiany and kind of believe in god, so i want to read it but im worried incase i dont understand most of it or if im too young to understand it and if it will take up a lot of my time, so maybe ill read it one day when im older…

I have read Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers and half of Deuteronomy. Most of Psalms and all of Matthew and almost all of mark!I’m still going!!!

Whoo hoo! I am quite excited because I just finished the Old Testament, and shall be starting in on the New Testament tomorrow :D.

This is my very first time reading all the way through the Bible from cover to cover and I just wanted to leave an encouraging word to those who may be getting frustrated or the like on this goal. This is certainly worth doing! Stick with it and have someone who will go along and read with you. That is how I started. One of my friends requested me to read along with him and wanted to start from the beginning. When I thought about it I realized that I had never actually done that (though I had started a few times in the past and fizzled out after a few books). We decided to read 5 chapters a day and would email each other what the “reading” was every couple of days just to make sure we were both on the same page.

Having someone else who is reading the same thing as you helps to keep you going when the going gets…to be a drag (haha, I hate to say that but there were certainly times when I had no desire to read at all, or wished I could skip ahead to something I thought might be more interesting). And if you make sure to check in with you reading buddy it keeps you both going. Also it is great because you can discuss what you have been reading lately with the other person (or people :D).

I’ve tried countless times to read the Bible all the way through using reading plans and such, but they never really worked for me. I got frustrated whenever I forgot to read my daily readings and they would start piling up causing me to give up.

I kept thinking that I needed a way to read the Bible all the way through without having to worry about reading it consistently everyday. And I also needed to keep myself encouraged along the way so that I wouldn’t give up.

The way I read through the Bible was by making a check list of all 66 (70… Psalms is actually 5 books combined) books, from least chapters to most chapters.

Then I started reading the books. I would read them in the order of my list, or whenever I got the nudge to read a certain book. At first, I read over 10 of the small books. This got me really excited. Then I thought I’d better start reading a larger book and save the smaller ones for later. As I went through the books I kept myself excited by seeing how many books I had already read, and towards the end, how many books I had left.

It worked so well that I’ve continued making reading lists for every new Bible version I get.

I have read through….Ecclesiastes, Songs of Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Zecheriah,Mark, John, Romans, Hebrews, of course Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and I never did finish Duet. But I am currently working through Daniel. So I’m still going…..have a long way yet to go but i’m getting there.