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Whether yous're reading for devotional, cultural, or personal reasons, a year is a reasonable amount of time in which to read the Bible. Before you begin, take some time to consider how y'all would like to approach your task. You can read alone, or in a group. You tin read one translation of the Bible, or several. You can read the Bible with or without commentary or context. Pace yourself, and track your progress.

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   Time yourself. To become through a long text without losing focus, endeavor reading your bible for a regular amount of time every twenty-four hours. You lot might read for xx minutes to an 60 minutes, depending on your reading speed and attention span. If there is a fourth dimension of your day when you can count on having a certain amount of serenity time, read then.

   • Proceed a calendar and rails your progress. Tick a box every day you lot exercise your reading.
   • If yous take an average reading speed and y'all read for about ten minutes a day for a year, y'all should finish with time to spare. To be able to take off some days and spend extra time on dense passages, try reading for at least twenty minutes at a time.

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   Count your pages. Take the number of pages in your edition of the Bible, and divide it past 365. Then, read that number of pages every mean solar day. For example, if your edition of the Bible has 1,760 pages, that's 4.8 pages a day. Round upwardly and read 5 pages a day. Check your progress every month to make sure you've fabricated your monthly page count.

   • If dividing your reading upwards by day doesn't work, because you lot have a changeable schedule, endeavour setting weekly or monthly reading goals.

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   Read with others. You might find information technology easier to meet your reading goals and boost your comprehension if you have company. Join an existing reading group, or form your own. If yous attend a church, an interfaith organization, or a secular organization such as an anarchist complimentary school, propose a reading group and decide on a pace, lodge, and coming together schedule that suits your group. Members of your group tin read together in a room, or read separately and come together for monthly meetings.

   • Alternatively, enquire a friend or family member to read along with you lot. Even a long distance friend can be a practiced reading buddy—gear up reading goals together, and brand a weekly give-and-take engagement online, in person, or over the phone.
   • Take a grade. Search online, or at your local community college, church, or free schoolhouse, for Bible report classes. Taking a class that requires you to read the whole Bible volition motivate y'all to read, while providing valuable historical context.

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   Read in a way that commands your focus. Taking in a text is very different from skimming. Choose to read in a mode that lets you really absorb the words in front of y'all. Reading aloud can aid yous retain what y'all read.^[1] Rereading tin also be helpful.

   • If you are a morning time person, read in the morning. If you focus better at night, read and so.
   • If you notice your listen wandering, effort reading in sections. For instance, read for twenty minutes, stand up up and have a glass of water, so read for another xx.

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   Listen to an audio Bible. If you have trouble comprehending reading, or would merely like to hear the Bible while you do your daily chores or exercises, download a recording of someone reading it. If you lot search online, yous can even find audiobooks that are designed to be listened to over an entire year.

   • Even if yous are also reading the Bible, you might consider listening as well. If you are reading one translation you might cull to listen to a different translation, for case.

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   Sign up for an online Bible e-mail service. You can sign up for a plan that emails y'all your daily readings. If you lot accept problem picking up a volume regularly, just are very prompt with emails, you lot tin can motivate yourself by mark your Bible email "read" each day.

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   Read with prayer. If you are reading for purposes of devotion, include your reading in your daily faith routine.^[2] Pray before or afterwards you read. Read purposefully, as if you lot were praying. Enquire for guidance in your reading. Read with a question in mind, or read blindly and let your heed to absorb the wisdom of the words.

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   Read the Bible from start to finish. Pick upwards your Bible as if it were a novel, and read it from Genesis to Revelations.^[3] This choice might be salubrious if you believe in "approved society," an order ordained by God. It might also be a good pick if looking upwards poetry numbers or capacity slows yous down. In that case, ignore the numbers and start reading from the beginning folio.

   • You tin can even purchase versions of the Bible that contains no verse numbers, if yous choose.

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   Read in chronological lodge. Yous can read the Bible in the order in which its events occurred. Wait online for reading plans that lay out the order of events in the Bible.^[iv] If you read chronologically, you will break upwardly the different books. For example, you will find yourself switching to the Book of Job in the middle of reading Genesis, considering Task lived during the fourth dimension covered in Genesis.^[5]

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   Read in historical club. Read the books of the Bible according to estimates of when they were written. If yous are interested in tracking the ways different writers of the Bible responded to, and revised, ane some other's thinking, y'all might choose to read in this order. Find lists of estimated dates online.^[6]

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   Read every mean solar day, start in January. 1 method of reading the Bible is to do it every solar day, beginning in January. If you lot would like to brainstorm in some other calendar month, adjust your schedule accordingly.

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   Read Genesis and Exodus in January. Genesis and Exodus are part of the Pentateuch (the first v books of the Bible) and are known every bit books of the police considering they provide laws and instructions for the people of State of israel.

   • Read 3 chapters each 24-hour interval. At this rate, you volition complete the volume of Genesis on Jan. 17 and the book of Exodus on Jan. 31.
   • If you would like to use this schedule but do not plan to brainstorm in January, adjust your monthly plan appropriately.

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   Read Leviticus and Numbers in Feb, and start the book of Deuteronomy. The readings this month focus on the books of the constabulary. Continue to read an average of three chapters each day. Affiliate length varies.

   • Read iv chapters on Feb. i; iii capacity each twenty-four hour period from February. 2-4; ii chapters on Feb. 5; 3 chapters each solar day from Feb. half-dozen-7; ii chapters each 24-hour interval from February. viii-13; and 1 chapter on Feb. 14.
   • Read 3 capacity each solar day from February. 15-sixteen; 2 chapters each day from Feb. 17-eighteen; three chapters on Feb. 19; 2 chapters on Feb. xx; 3 capacity on Feb. 21; 2 chapters on Feb. 22; 3 chapters on Feb. 23; and 2 chapters each mean solar day from February. 24-28.
   • Using this reading program, you will complete Leviticus on February. x and will cease Numbers on Feb. 26. On the last 24-hour interval of February, you lot will have completed Deuteronomy 4 (the 4th chapter of Deuteronomy).

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   Read the rest of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth and role of 1 Samuel in March. The book of Deuteronomy will conclude the books of the police force. The other books for this month are considered historical books, which share the history of God'southward people in the Old Attestation.

   • Start with chapter 5 of Deuteronomy. Read 3 capacity each day from March 1-4. Read iv chapters on March 5; 3 chapters on March 6; 4 chapters on March 7; 2 chapters each solar day from March eight-9 and 3 chapters on March 10.
   • Read 4 capacity each day from March eleven-12; 3 chapters on March 13 and iv chapters on March 14; 3 capacity each day from March xv-17; ii chapters on March eighteen; 3 chapters on March 19; 2 capacity each twenty-four hour period from March 20-21.
   • Read 3 chapters each day from March 22-25; 4 chapters on March 26; 3 capacity on March 27; 5 chapters on March 28; 4 chapters on March 29; two chapters on March thirty; and 3 capacity on March 31.
   • If y'all follow this plan, you will complete Deuteronomy on March x, Joshua on March 17, Judges on March 25 and Ruth on March 26. You too will complete the starting time 17 chapters of ane Samuel, which is more than than halfway through the book.

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   Complete i Samuel, ii Samuel, 1 Kings and ii Kings in Apr. These books are classified as historical Erstwhile Attestation books.

   • Read 3 capacity on April 1, beginning with 1 Samuel 18. Read 4 chapters on Apr 2; 3 chapters on April 3; 4 capacity on April 4; iii capacity on April 5; 4 chapters on Apr half-dozen; v chapters on Apr seven and 3 chapters each day from April viii-11.
   • Read 2 capacity on April 12; 3 chapters on April thirteen; 2 capacity each solar day from April 14-16; iii chapters each 24-hour interval from April 17-19 and two chapters on Apr 20.
   • Read iii capacity on April 21; 2 chapters on April 22; 3 chapters each day from April 23-26; 2 chapters on April 27; 3 capacity each day from April 28-29; and ii capacity on Apr 30.
   • Past following this plan, you will complete 1 Samuel on Apr four, 2 Samuel on April xi, 1 Kings on April xx and 2 Kings on April 29. On the last solar day of the month, you will begin the book of 1 Chronicles.

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   Read 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther in May. These books conclude the historical books of the Old Testament.

   • Begin the May reading with the tertiary chapter of 1 Chronicles. Read 3 chapters on May one; i chapter on May 2; 2 capacity on May three; 3 chapters each twenty-four hour period from May 4-6; four capacity on May vii and 3 chapters each mean solar day from May eight-10.
   • Read iv chapters on May 11; 3 capacity on May 12; four chapters on May 13; five chapters on May 14; 3 chapters on May 15; 4 chapters on May sixteen; three capacity on May 17; 4 capacity on May 18; iii capacity on May 19 and 2 chapters on May 20.
   • Read three chapters on May 21; iv chapters on May 22; 3 chapters each day from May 23-25; 1 affiliate on May 26; ii chapters each day from May 27-29; and 5 chapters each twenty-four hours from May 30-31.
   • This reading plan volition enable you to finish 1 Chronicles on May ten, two Chronicles on May 20, Ezra on May 23, Nehemiah on May 29 and Esther on May 31.

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   Read Job and function of Psalm in June. These books are classified equally poetic books of the Onetime Attestation.

   • Start with chapter 1 in the book of Job. Read 4 chapters on June 1; three chapters each day from June two-five; iv chapters on June half dozen; iii capacity on June 7; 5 chapters on June 8 and 3 capacity each mean solar day from June 9-xi.
   • Read ii chapters on June 12; iii chapters on June thirteen; viii chapters each day from June 14-15; four chapters on June 16; five chapters on June 17; 6 chapters on June xviii and 4 chapters each day from June 19-20.
   • Read half dozen chapters on June 21; 5 chapters on June 22; seven chapters on June 23; 8 chapters on June 24; 4 chapters each twenty-four hour period from June 25-27; 2 chapters on June 28; 6 capacity on June 29; and four chapters on June 30.
   • With this reading plan, you will complete the book of Chore on June xiii and get more than halfway through the volume of Psalm.

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   Read Psalm, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon and function of Isaiah in July. Psalm, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon are considered poetic books of the Old Testament.

   • Begin with Psalm 90. Read 6 chapters on July i; 7 chapters on July ii; 3 chapters on July 3; 2 chapters on July 4; 7 chapters on July v; four capacity on July 6; ane affiliate split between July 7- 8 (this is Psalm 119, which is a long affiliate); 13 capacity on July 9 and seven chapters on July 10.
   • Read 6 chapters on July 11; 5 chapters on July 12; 3 chapters each day from July 13-19 and 2 chapters on July 20.
   • Read 3 chapters each day from July 21-22; 2 chapters on July 23; 4 chapters each mean solar day from July 24-26; 8 chapters on July 27; and 4 capacity each solar day from July 28-31.
   • Using this reading schedule, you will finish Psalm on July 12, Proverbs on July 23, Ecclesiastes on July 26 and Song of Solomon on July 27. The concluding iv days of the month will exist spent reading the showtime 17 chapters of Isaiah.

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   Complete the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Lamentations during August. These books are classified as Major Prophets, and share the stories and warnings from the prophets of Israel.

   • Begin the August reading with Isaiah 18. Read v chapters each day from Aug. one-2; iii chapters on Aug. iii; v chapters on Aug. 4; 6 chapters on Aug. 5; 3 chapters on Aug. 6 and 5 capacity each twenty-four hours from Aug. 7-x.
   • Read three chapters each mean solar day from Aug. 11-xiv; four chapters each solar day from Aug. 15-16; 5 chapters on Aug. 17; 3 chapters on Aug. xviii; 4 chapters on Aug. 19 and ii capacity on Aug. xx.
   • Read 3 chapters each day from Aug. 21-22; 4 chapters each day from Aug. 23-24; 3 capacity on Aug. 25; 2 chapters each 24-hour interval from Aug. 26-27; 3 chapters on Aug. 28; 2 capacity on Aug. 29; and four chapters each day from Aug. 30-31.
   • With this reading plan, y'all will complete Isaiah on Aug. 11, Jeremiah on Aug. 27 and Lamentations on Aug. 29. During the final ii days of the month, you will brainstorm the volume of Ezekiel.

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    Read Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai and Zechariah in September. The books of Ezekiel and Daniel are considered Major Prophet writings, while the remainder of the books for this calendar month are classified every bit Pocket-sized Prophet writings. The reading plan may announced to exist a lot of textile for 1 calendar month, merely many of the books are short, with only a few chapters each.

    • Kickoff with chapter ix in the book of Ezekiel. Read four capacity on Sept. i; 3 capacity on Sept. 2; 2 chapters on Sept. 3; three capacity on Sept. 4; ii chapters each twenty-four hours from Sept. five-6 and iii chapters each day from Sept. 7-xviii.
    • Read 7 capacity on Sept. xix-20; 3 chapters on Sept. 21; 5 chapters on Sept. 22; 4 chapters on Sept. 23; five chapters on Sept. 24; seven chapters on Sept. 25; 3 chapters on Sept. 26; 6 capacity on Sept. 27; 2 chapters on Sept. 28; and 7 capacity each day from Sept. 29-xxx.
    • This reading plan enables you to finish Ezekiel on Sept. fourteen, Daniel on Sept. xviii, Hosea on Sept. twenty, Joel on Sept. 21, Amos on Sept. 23, Obadiah and Jonah on Sept. 24, Micah on Sept. 25, Nahum on Sept. 26, Habakkuk and Zephaniah on Sept. 27, Haggai on Sept. 28 and Zechariah on Sept. xxx.

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    Read Malachi, Matthew, Mark and most of Luke in October. Malachi is the last volume of the Old Testament, and so you will complete the Former Testament and begin the New Testament if you follow the reading programme this month. You likewise volition begin the chapters known as the gospels in the New Testament.

    • Brainstorm with Malachi 1. Read four chapters each day from October. 1-2; 2 chapters each day from Oct. three-seven; 3 chapters on October. viii; 2 chapters each day from October. ix-12; 1 chapter on Oct. 13; two chapters on Oct. 14 and 3 capacity on Oct. xv.
    • Read 2 chapters each twenty-four hours from October. sixteen-xx; 1 chapter on Oct. 21; 2 capacity on Oct. 22; 1 affiliate on Oct. 23; two chapters each day from Oct. 24-29; 3 chapters on October. thirty; and 2 chapters on Oct. 31.
    • If you stick to this reading plan, you will consummate Malachi on October. 1, Matthew on Oct 14 and Mark on Oct. 22.

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    Complete Luke, John, Acts and Romans and begin 1 Corinthians in November. During this month, you will stop the gospels and acquire virtually New Testament history through the volume of Acts. You besides volition begin the epistles, which are letters written to specific communities.

    • Offset this month's reading with Luke 19. Read 2 chapters each day from Nov. 1-9; iii capacity each 24-hour interval from November. 10-15.
    • Read 2 capacity on Nov. 16; iii chapters on Nov. 17; 2 capacity each day from November. 18-19; 3 chapters each day from November. twenty-24; 4 chapters on Nov. 25; 3 chapters each day from Nov. 26-28; and iv chapters each 24-hour interval from Nov. 29-30.
    • Using this reading schedule, you will consummate Luke on Nov. 3, John on Nov. 12, Acts on November. 23 and Romans on November. 28.

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    Terminate the Bible in December. The books for this month include 1 Corinthians, ii Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, ane Thessalonians, two Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Jude and Revelation. These books are categorized as epistles, except for Revelation, which is typically considered a book of prophecy. This month'due south reading assignment may appear lengthy based on the number of books, merely many of the books are short and some comprise only ane chapter.

    • Brainstorm with 1 Corinthians 9. Read 3 chapters each mean solar day from December. 1-ii; 2 capacity on Dec. 3; four chapters on Dec. 4; 5 capacity on Dec. 5; 4 capacity on Dec. 6 and three chapters each twenty-four hour period from Dec. vii-ten.
    • Read four chapters on Dec. 11; 4 chapters on Dec. 12; 5 capacity on Dec. 13; 3 chapters on Dec. 14; half dozen capacity on Dec. 15; four chapters each day from December. xvi-17; six chapters on Dec. xviii; 4 chapters on Dec. 19 and three chapters on Dec. 20.
    • Read v chapters on Dec. 21; 5 chapters on Dec. 22; iii chapters on Dec. 23; 5 chapters on December. 24; 3 chapters on December. 25; 3 chapters on December. 26; 5 chapters on Dec. 27; 4 chapters each twenty-four hour period from December. 28-29; and three chapters each day from Dec. 30-31.
    • Using this reading program, you will finish 1 Corinthians on Dec. iii, 2 Corinthians on Dec. vi, Galatians on Dec. viii, Ephesians on December. 10, Philippians on Dec. 11, Colossians on December. 12, 1 Thessalonians on Dec. 13, 2 Thessalonians on December. 14, 1 Timothy on Dec. 15, 2 Timothy on Dec. 16, Titus and Philemon on December. 17, Hebrews on Dec. twenty, James on Dec. 21, 1 Peter on Dec. 22, 2 Peter on Dec. 23, one John on Dec. 24, 2 John, 3 John and Jude on Dec. 25, and Revelation on December. 31.
    • Most importantly, you will have completed the entire Bible from beginning to end in one yr.

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  In that location are shut to 929 capacity in the Old Testament and 260 chapters in the New Testament. This would mean that you would need to read around 3 - four capacity per day to read the complete Christian Bible.

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  There are no rules about where you must report. As long every bit you tin concentrate on what y'all're reading and absorb the material, information technology'south admittedly fine.

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To read the Bible in a year, set aside twenty to thirty minutes each day for reading. Alternatively, dissever the number of pages in your issue of the Bible by 365, then read that number of pages each day. Alternatively, consider listening to an audio version of the Bible. If y'all find it challenging to read by yourself, consider joining a reading group to help you stay focused and boost your comprehension. For tips on how to read the Bible from beginning to finish, keep reading!

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