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2026 Bible Reading Plan
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Welcome to the 2026 King Street Church Bible Reading Plan. This year we will be following a chronological plan.
In your personal journal, consider answering these questions as part of your devotional time:
In this passage…
What do I learn about God?
What do I learn about man?
Is there an example to follow?
What does God want me to believe?
Genesis 16-18
16Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar;
2so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her.” Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
3So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.
4He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
5Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my servant in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge between you and me.”
6“Your servant is in your hands,” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.
7The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.
8And he said, “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.
9Then the angel of the Lord told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.”
10The angel added, “I will so increase your descendants that they will be too numerous to count.”
11The angel of the Lord also said to her: “You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard of your misery.
12He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”
13She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.”
14That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi ; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.
15So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
16Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.
17When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty ; walk before me and be blameless.
2I will confirm my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.”
3Abram fell facedown, and God said to him,
4“As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.
5No longer will you be called Abram ; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
6I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you.
7I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
8The whole land of Canaan, where you are now an alien, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God.”
9Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.
10This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
11You are to undergo circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you.
12For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner-those who are not your offspring.
13Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant.
14Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh, will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”
15God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah.
16I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.”
17Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, “Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?”
18And Abraham said to God, “If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!”
19Then God said, “Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
20And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.
21But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year.”
22When he had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.
23On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them, as God told him.
24Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised,
25and his son Ishmael was thirteen;
26Abraham and his son Ishmael were both circumcised on that same day.
27And every male in Abraham’s household, including those born in his household or bought from a foreigner, was circumcised with him.
18The Lord appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day.
2Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.
3He said, “If I have found favor in your eyes, my lord, do not pass your servant by.
4Let a little water be brought, and then you may all wash your feet and rest under this tree.
5Let me get you something to eat, so you can be refreshed and then go on your way-now that you have come to your servant.” “Very well,” they answered, “do as you say.”
6So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah. “Quick,” he said, “get three seahs of fine flour and knead it and bake some bread.”
7Then he ran to the herd and selected a choice, tender calf and gave it to a servant, who hurried to prepare it.
8He then brought some curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and set these before them. While they ate, he stood near them under a tree.
9“Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked him. “There, in the tent,” he said.
10Then the Lord said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.” Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him.
11Abraham and Sarah were already old and well advanced in years, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing.
12So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”
13Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?’
14Is anything too hard for the Lord ? I will return to you at the appointed time next year and Sarah will have a son.”
15Sarah was afraid, so she lied and said, “I did not laugh.” But he said, “Yes, you did laugh.”
16When the men got up to leave, they looked down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them on their way.
17Then the Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?
18Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him.
19For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”
20Then the Lord said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.”
22The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the Lord .
23Then Abraham approached him and said: “Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
24What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it?
25Far be it from you to do such a thing-to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
26The Lord said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
27Then Abraham spoke up again: “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes,
28what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city because of five people?” “If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy it.”
29Once again he spoke to him, “What if only forty are found there?” He said, “For the sake of forty, I will not do it.”
30Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak. What if only thirty can be found there?” He answered, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”
31Abraham said, “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there?” He said, “For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it.”
32Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?” He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.”
33When the Lord had finished speaking with Abraham, he left, and Abraham returned home.
January 16 KSC Bible Plan
Welcome to the 2026 King Street Church Bible Reading Plan. This year we will be following a chronological plan.
In your personal journal, consider answering these questions as part of your devotional time:
In this passage…
What do I learn about God?
What do I learn about man?
Is there an example to follow?
What does God want me to believe?
Genesis 12-15
12The Lord had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you.
2“I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
3I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
4So Abram left, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran.
5He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.
6Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
7The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord , who had appeared to him.
8From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord .
9Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.
10Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.
11As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know what a beautiful woman you are.
12When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live.
13Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.”
14When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that she was a very beautiful woman.
15And when Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into his palace.
16He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.
17But the Lord inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram’s wife Sarai.
18So Pharaoh summoned Abram. “What have you done to me?” he said. “Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?
19Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!”
20Then Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and everything he had.
13So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him.
2Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.
3From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier
4and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the Lord .
5Now Lot, who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.
6But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together.
7And quarreling arose between Abram’s herdsmen and the herdsmen of Lot. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.
8So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers.
9Is not the whole land before you? Let’s part company. If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.”
10Lot looked up and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan was well watered, like the garden of the Lord , like the land of Egypt, toward Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
11So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:
12Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.
13Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord .
14The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Lift up your eyes from where you are and look north and south, east and west.
15All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever.
16I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.
17Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.”
18So Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the Lord .
14At this time Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of Goiim
2went to war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).
3All these latter kings joined forces in the Valley of Siddim (the Salt Sea ).
4For twelve years they had been subject to Kedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
5In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim
6and the Horites in the hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran near the desert.
7Then they turned back and went to En Mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they conquered the whole territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who were living in Hazazon Tamar.
8Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) marched out and drew up their battle lines in the Valley of Siddim
9against Kedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar and Arioch king of Ellasar-four kings against five.
10Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some of the men fell into them and the rest fled to the hills.
11The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food; then they went away.
12They also carried off Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions, since he was living in Sodom.
13One who had escaped came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the great trees of Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshcol and Aner, all of whom were allied with Abram.
14When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he called out the 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
15During the night Abram divided his men to attack them and he routed them, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus.
16He recovered all the goods and brought back his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the other people.
17After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom came out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).
18Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High,
19and he blessed Abram, saying, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth.
20And blessed be God Most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
21The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people and keep the goods for yourself.”
22But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand to the Lord , God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth, and have taken an oath
23that I will accept nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the thong of a sandal, so that you will never be able to say, ‘I made Abram rich.’
24I will accept nothing but what my men have eaten and the share that belongs to the men who went with me-to Aner, Eshcol and Mamre. Let them have their share.”
15After this, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward. “
2But Abram said, “O Sovereign Lord , what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”
3And Abram said, “You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.”
4Then the word of the Lord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son coming from your own body will be your heir.”
5He took him outside and said, “Look up at the heavens and count the stars-if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”
6Abram believed the Lord , and he credited it to him as righteousness.
7He also said to him, “I am the Lord , who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it.”
8But Abram said, “O Sovereign Lord , how can I know that I will gain possession of it?”
9So the Lord said to him, “Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.”
10Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half.
11Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
12As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.
13Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
14But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.
15You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age.
16In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”
17When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces.
18On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates-
19the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
20Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
21Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.”
January 15 KSC Bible Plan
Welcome to the 2026 King Street Church Bible Reading Plan. This year we will be following a chronological plan.
In your personal journal, consider answering these questions as part of your devotional time:
In this passage…
What do I learn about God?
What do I learn about man?
Is there an example to follow?
What does God want me to believe?
Job 40-42
40The Lord said to Job:
2“Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let him who accuses God answer him!”
3Then Job answered the Lord :
4“I am unworthy-how can I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth.
5I spoke once, but I have no answer- twice, but I will say no more.”
6Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm:
7“Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me.
8“Would you discredit my justice? Would you condemn me to justify yourself?
9Do you have an arm like God’s, and can your voice thunder like his?
10Then adorn yourself with glory and splendor, and clothe yourself in honor and majesty.
11Unleash the fury of your wrath, look at every proud man and bring him low,
12look at every proud man and humble him, crush the wicked where they stand.
13Bury them all in the dust together; shroud their faces in the grave.
14Then I myself will admit to you that your own right hand can save you.
15“Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you and which feeds on grass like an ox.
16What strength he has in his loins, what power in the muscles of his belly!
17His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are close-knit.
18His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like rods of iron.
19He ranks first among the works of God, yet his Maker can approach him with his sword.
20The hills bring him their produce, and all the wild animals play nearby.
21Under the lotus plants he lies, hidden among the reeds in the marsh.
22The lotuses conceal him in their shadow; the poplars by the stream surround him.
23When the river rages, he is not alarmed; he is secure, though the Jordan should surge against his mouth.
24Can anyone capture him by the eyes, or trap him and pierce his nose?
41“Can you pull in the leviathan with a fishhook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
2Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
3Will he keep begging you for mercy? Will he speak to you with gentle words?
4Will he make an agreement with you for you to take him as your slave for life?
5Can you make a pet of him like a bird or put him on a leash for your girls?
6Will traders barter for him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?
7Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
8If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the struggle and never do it again!
9Any hope of subduing him is false; the mere sight of him is overpowering.
10No one is fierce enough to rouse him. Who then is able to stand against me?
11Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.
12“I will not fail to speak of his limbs, his strength and his graceful form.
13Who can strip off his outer coat? Who would approach him with a bridle?
14Who dares open the doors of his mouth, ringed about with his fearsome teeth?
15His back has rows of shields tightly sealed together;
16each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.
17They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.
18His snorting throws out flashes of light; his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
19Firebrands stream from his mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.
20Smoke pours from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
21His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from his mouth.
22Strength resides in his neck; dismay goes before him.
23The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
24His chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.
25When he rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before his thrashing.
26The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.
27Iron he treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.
28Arrows do not make him flee; slingstones are like chaff to him.
29A club seems to him but a piece of straw; he laughs at the rattling of the lance.
30His undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
31He makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.
32Behind him he leaves a glistening wake; one would think the deep had white hair.
33Nothing on earth is his equal- a creature without fear.
34He looks down on all that are haughty; he is king over all that are proud.”
42Then Job replied to the Lord :
2“I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted.
3You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.
4“You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me.’
5My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.
6Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”
7After the Lord had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.
8So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.”
9So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the Lord told them; and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.
10After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before.
11All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the Lord had brought upon him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.
12The Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the first. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys.
13And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
14The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch.
15Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.
16After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
17And so he died, old and full of years.
January 14 KSC Bible Plan
Welcome to the 2026 King Street Church Bible Reading Plan. This year we will be following a chronological plan.
In your personal journal, consider answering these questions as part of your devotional time:
In this passage…
What do I learn about God?
What do I learn about man?
Is there an example to follow?
What does God want me to believe?
Job 38-39
38Then the Lord answered Job out of the storm. He said:
2“Who is this that darkens my counsel with words without knowledge?
3Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me.
4“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand.
5Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?
6On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone-
7while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?
8“Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
9when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness,
10when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place,
11when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt’?
12“Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place,
13that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it?
14The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like those of a garment.
15The wicked are denied their light, and their upraised arm is broken.
16“Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep?
17Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death ?
18Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this.
19“What is the way to the abode of light? And where does darkness reside?
20Can you take them to their places? Do you know the paths to their dwellings?
21Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years!
22“Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail,
23which I reserve for times of trouble, for days of war and battle?
24What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?
25Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm,
26to water a land where no man lives, a desert with no one in it,
27to satisfy a desolate wasteland and make it sprout with grass?
28Does the rain have a father? Who fathers the drops of dew?
29From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens
30when the waters become hard as stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen?
31“Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades? Can you loose the cords of Orion?
32Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs?
33Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God’s dominion over the earth?
34“Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water?
35Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
36Who endowed the heart with wisdom or gave understanding to the mind ?
37Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens
38when the dust becomes hard and the clods of earth stick together?
39“Do you hunt the prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger of the lions
40when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in a thicket?
41Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?
39“Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears her fawn?
2Do you count the months till they bear? Do you know the time they give birth?
3They crouch down and bring forth their young; their labor pains are ended.
4Their young thrive and grow strong in the wilds; they leave and do not return.
5“Who let the wild donkey go free? Who untied his ropes?
6I gave him the wasteland as his home, the salt flats as his habitat.
7He laughs at the commotion in the town; he does not hear a driver’s shout.
8He ranges the hills for his pasture and searches for any green thing.
9“Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night?
10Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he till the valleys behind you?
11Will you rely on him for his great strength? Will you leave your heavy work to him?
12Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?
13“The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but they cannot compare with the pinions and feathers of the stork.
14She lays her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand,
15unmindful that a foot may crush them, that some wild animal may trample them.
16She treats her young harshly, as if they were not hers; she cares not that her labor was in vain,
17for God did not endow her with wisdom or give her a share of good sense.
18Yet when she spreads her feathers to run, she laughs at horse and rider.
19“Do you give the horse his strength or clothe his neck with a flowing mane?
20Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting?
21He paws fiercely, rejoicing in his strength, and charges into the fray.
22He laughs at fear, afraid of nothing; he does not shy away from the sword.
23The quiver rattles against his side, along with the flashing spear and lance.
24In frenzied excitement he eats up the ground; he cannot stand still when the trumpet sounds.
25At the blast of the trumpet he snorts, ‘Aha!’ He catches the scent of battle from afar, the shout of commanders and the battle cry.
26“Does the hawk take flight by your wisdom and spread his wings toward the south?
27Does the eagle soar at your command and build his nest on high?
28He dwells on a cliff and stays there at night; a rocky crag is his stronghold.
29From there he seeks out his food; his eyes detect it from afar.
30His young ones feast on blood, and where the slain are, there is he.”
January 13 the Bible Recap Bible Reading Plan
Welcome to the 2026 King Street Church Bible Reading Plan. This year we will be following a chronological plan.
In your personal journal, consider answering these questions as part of your devotional time:
In this passage…
What do I learn about God?
What do I learn about man?
Is there an example to follow?
What does God want me to believe?
Job 35-37
35Then Elihu said:
2“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I will be cleared by God. ‘
3Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me, and what do I gain by not sinning?’
4“I would like to reply to you and to your friends with you.
5Look up at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds so high above you.
6If you sin, how does that affect him? If your sins are many, what does that do to him?
7If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand?
8Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only the sons of men.
9“Men cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.
10But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
11who teaches more to us than to the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
12He does not answer when men cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked.
13Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea; the Almighty pays no attention to it.
14How much less, then, will he listen when you say that you do not see him, that your case is before him and you must wait for him,
15and further, that his anger never punishes and he does not take the least notice of wickedness.
16So Job opens his mouth with empty talk; without knowledge he multiplies words.”
36Elihu continued:
2“Bear with me a little longer and I will show you that there is more to be said in God’s behalf.
3I get my knowledge from afar; I will ascribe justice to my Maker.
4Be assured that my words are not false; one perfect in knowledge is with you.
5“God is mighty, but does not despise men; he is mighty, and firm in his purpose.
6He does not keep the wicked alive but gives the afflicted their rights.
7He does not take his eyes off the righteous; he enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever.
8But if men are bound in chains, held fast by cords of affliction,
9he tells them what they have done- that they have sinned arrogantly.
10He makes them listen to correction and commands them to repent of their evil.
11If they obey and serve him, they will spend the rest of their days in prosperity and their years in contentment.
12But if they do not listen, they will perish by the sword and die without knowledge.
13“The godless in heart harbor resentment; even when he fetters them, they do not cry for help.
14They die in their youth, among male prostitutes of the shrines.
15But those who suffer he delivers in their suffering; he speaks to them in their affliction.
16“He is wooing you from the jaws of distress to a spacious place free from restriction, to the comfort of your table laden with choice food.
17But now you are laden with the judgment due the wicked; judgment and justice have taken hold of you.
18Be careful that no one entices you by riches; do not let a large bribe turn you aside.
19Would your wealth or even all your mighty efforts sustain you so you would not be in distress?
20Do not long for the night, to drag people away from their homes.
21Beware of turning to evil, which you seem to prefer to affliction.
22“God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?
23Who has prescribed his ways for him, or said to him, ‘You have done wrong’?
24Remember to extol his work, which men have praised in song.
25All mankind has seen it; men gaze on it from afar.
26How great is God-beyond our understanding! The number of his years is past finding out.
27“He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams ;
28the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind.
29Who can understand how he spreads out the clouds, how he thunders from his pavilion?
30See how he scatters his lightning about him, bathing the depths of the sea.
31This is the way he governs the nations and provides food in abundance.
32He fills his hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.
33His thunder announces the coming storm; even the cattle make known its approach.
37“At this my heart pounds and leaps from its place.
2Listen! Listen to the roar of his voice, to the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
3He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven and sends it to the ends of the earth.
4After that comes the sound of his roar; he thunders with his majestic voice. When his voice resounds, he holds nothing back.
5God’s voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.
6He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the rain shower, ‘Be a mighty downpour.’
7So that all men he has made may know his work, he stops every man from his labor.
8The animals take cover; they remain in their dens.
9The tempest comes out from its chamber, the cold from the driving winds.
10The breath of God produces ice, and the broad waters become frozen.
11He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through them.
12At his direction they swirl around over the face of the whole earth to do whatever he commands them.
13He brings the clouds to punish men, or to water his earth and show his love.
14“Listen to this, Job; stop and consider God’s wonders.
15Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash?
16Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of him who is perfect in knowledge?
17You who swelter in your clothes when the land lies hushed under the south wind,
18can you join him in spreading out the skies, hard as a mirror of cast bronze?
19“Tell us what we should say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness.
20Should he be told that I want to speak? Would any man ask to be swallowed up?
21Now no one can look at the sun, bright as it is in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.
22Out of the north he comes in golden splendor; God comes in awesome majesty.
23The Almighty is beyond our reach and exalted in power; in his justice and great righteousness, he does not oppress.
24Therefore, men revere him, for does he not have regard for all the wise in heart? “
January 12 KSC Bible Plan
Welcome to the 2026 King Street Church Bible Reading Plan. This year we will be following a chronological plan.
In your personal journal, consider answering these questions as part of your devotional time:
In this passage…
What do I learn about God?
What do I learn about man?
Is there an example to follow?
What does God want me to believe?
Job 32-34
32So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
2But Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became very angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God.
3He was also angry with the three friends, because they had found no way to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.
4Now Elihu had waited before speaking to Job because they were older than he.
5But when he saw that the three men had nothing more to say, his anger was aroused.
6So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite said: “I am young in years, and you are old; that is why I was fearful, not daring to tell you what I know.
7I thought, ‘Age should speak; advanced years should teach wisdom.’
8But it is the spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.
9It is not only the old who are wise, not only the aged who understand what is right.
10“Therefore I say: Listen to me; I too will tell you what I know.
11I waited while you spoke, I listened to your reasoning; while you were searching for words,
12I gave you my full attention. But not one of you has proved Job wrong; none of you has answered his arguments.
13Do not say, ‘We have found wisdom; let God refute him, not man.’
14But Job has not marshaled his words against me, and I will not answer him with your arguments.
15“They are dismayed and have no more to say; words have failed them.
16Must I wait, now that they are silent, now that they stand there with no reply?
17I too will have my say; I too will tell what I know.
18For I am full of words, and the spirit within me compels me;
19inside I am like bottled-up wine, like new wineskins ready to burst.
20I must speak and find relief; I must open my lips and reply.
21I will show partiality to no one, nor will I flatter any man;
22for if I were skilled in flattery, my Maker would soon take me away.
33“But now, Job, listen to my words; pay attention to everything I say.
2I am about to open my mouth; my words are on the tip of my tongue.
3My words come from an upright heart; my lips sincerely speak what I know.
4The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
5Answer me then, if you can; prepare yourself and confront me.
6I am just like you before God; I too have been taken from clay.
7No fear of me should alarm you, nor should my hand be heavy upon you.
8“But you have said in my hearing- I heard the very words-
9‘I am pure and without sin; I am clean and free from guilt.
10Yet God has found fault with me; he considers me his enemy.
11He fastens my feet in shackles; he keeps close watch on all my paths.’
12“But I tell you, in this you are not right, for God is greater than man.
13Why do you complain to him that he answers none of man’s words ?
14For God does speak-now one way, now another- though man may not perceive it.
15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men as they slumber in their beds,
16he may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings,
17to turn man from wrongdoing and keep him from pride,
18to preserve his soul from the pit, his life from perishing by the sword.
19Or a man may be chastened on a bed of pain with constant distress in his bones,
20so that his very being finds food repulsive and his soul loathes the choicest meal.
21His flesh wastes away to nothing, and his bones, once hidden, now stick out.
22His soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the messengers of death.
23“Yet if there is an angel on his side as a mediator, one out of a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,
24to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the pit ; I have found a ransom for him’-
25then his flesh is renewed like a child’s; it is restored as in the days of his youth.
26He prays to God and finds favor with him, he sees God’s face and shouts for joy; he is restored by God to his righteous state.
27Then he comes to men and says, ‘I sinned, and perverted what was right, but I did not get what I deserved.
28He redeemed my soul from going down to the pit, and I will live to enjoy the light.’
29“God does all these things to a man- twice, even three times-
30to turn back his soul from the pit, that the light of life may shine on him.
31“Pay attention, Job, and listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.
32If you have anything to say, answer me; speak up, for I want you to be cleared.
33But if not, then listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”
34Then Elihu said:
2“Hear my words, you wise men; listen to me, you men of learning.
3For the ear tests words as the tongue tastes food.
4Let us discern for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good.
5“Job says, ‘I am innocent, but God denies me justice.
6Although I am right, I am considered a liar; although I am guiltless, his arrow inflicts an incurable wound.’
7What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water?
8He keeps company with evildoers; he associates with wicked men.
9For he says, ‘It profits a man nothing when he tries to please God.’
10“So listen to me, you men of understanding. Far be it from God to do evil, from the Almighty to do wrong.
11He repays a man for what he has done; he brings upon him what his conduct deserves.
12It is unthinkable that God would do wrong, that the Almighty would pervert justice.
13Who appointed him over the earth? Who put him in charge of the whole world?
14If it were his intention and he withdrew his spirit and breath,
15all mankind would perish together and man would return to the dust.
16“If you have understanding, hear this; listen to what I say.
17Can he who hates justice govern? Will you condemn the just and mighty One?
18Is he not the One who says to kings, ‘You are worthless,’ and to nobles, ‘You are wicked,’
19who shows no partiality to princes and does not favor the rich over the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?
20They die in an instant, in the middle of the night; the people are shaken and they pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.
21“His eyes are on the ways of men; he sees their every step.
22There is no dark place, no deep shadow, where evildoers can hide.
23God has no need to examine men further, that they should come before him for judgment.
24Without inquiry he shatters the mighty and sets up others in their place.
25Because he takes note of their deeds, he overthrows them in the night and they are crushed.
26He punishes them for their wickedness where everyone can see them,
27because they turned from following him and had no regard for any of his ways.
28They caused the cry of the poor to come before him, so that he heard the cry of the needy.
29But if he remains silent, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, who can see him? Yet he is over man and nation alike,
30to keep a godless man from ruling, from laying snares for the people.
31“Suppose a man says to God, ‘I am guilty but will offend no more.
32Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do so again.’
33Should God then reward you on your terms, when you refuse to repent? You must decide, not I; so tell me what you know.
34“Men of understanding declare, wise men who hear me say to me,
35‘Job speaks without knowledge; his words lack insight.’
36Oh, that Job might be tested to the utmost for answering like a wicked man!
37To his sin he adds rebellion; scornfully he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”
January 11 KSC Bible Plan
Welcome to the 2026 King Street Church Bible Reading Plan. This year we will be following a chronological plan.
In your personal journal, consider answering these questions as part of your devotional time:
In this passage…
What do I learn about God?
What do I learn about man?
Is there an example to follow?
What does God want me to believe?
Job 29-31
29Job continued his discourse:
2“How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,
3when his lamp shone upon my head and by his light I walked through darkness!
4Oh, for the days when I was in my prime, when God’s intimate friendship blessed my house,
5when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me,
6when my path was drenched with cream and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil.
7“When I went to the gate of the city and took my seat in the public square,
8the young men saw me and stepped aside and the old men rose to their feet;
9the chief men refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands;
10the voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.
11Whoever heard me spoke well of me, and those who saw me commended me,
12because I rescued the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to assist him.
13The man who was dying blessed me; I made the widow’s heart sing.
14I put on righteousness as my clothing; justice was my robe and my turban.
15I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.
16I was a father to the needy; I took up the case of the stranger.
17I broke the fangs of the wicked and snatched the victims from their teeth.
18“I thought, ‘I will die in my own house, my days as numerous as the grains of sand.
19My roots will reach to the water, and the dew will lie all night on my branches.
20My glory will remain fresh in me, the bow ever new in my hand.’
21“Men listened to me expectantly, waiting in silence for my counsel.
22After I had spoken, they spoke no more; my words fell gently on their ears.
23They waited for me as for showers and drank in my words as the spring rain.
24When I smiled at them, they scarcely believed it; the light of my face was precious to them.
25I chose the way for them and sat as their chief; I dwelt as a king among his troops; I was like one who comforts mourners.
30“But now they mock me, men younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
2Of what use was the strength of their hands to me, since their vigor had gone from them?
3Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.
4In the brush they gathered salt herbs, and their food was the root of the broom tree.
5They were banished from their fellow men, shouted at as if they were thieves.
6They were forced to live in the dry stream beds, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.
7They brayed among the bushes and huddled in the undergrowth.
8A base and nameless brood, they were driven out of the land.
9“And now their sons mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
10They detest me and keep their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.
11Now that God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they throw off restraint in my presence.
12On my right the tribe attacks; they lay snares for my feet, they build their siege ramps against me.
13They break up my road; they succeed in destroying me- without anyone’s helping them.
14They advance as through a gaping breach; amid the ruins they come rolling in.
15Terrors overwhelm me; my dignity is driven away as by the wind, my safety vanishes like a cloud.
16“And now my life ebbs away; days of suffering grip me.
17Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never rest.
18In his great power God becomes like clothing to me ; he binds me like the neck of my garment.
19He throws me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.
20“I cry out to you, O God, but you do not answer; I stand up, but you merely look at me.
21You turn on me ruthlessly; with the might of your hand you attack me.
22You snatch me up and drive me before the wind; you toss me about in the storm.
23I know you will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
24“Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.
25Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has not my soul grieved for the poor?
26Yet when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, then came darkness.
27The churning inside me never stops; days of suffering confront me.
28I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
29I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of owls.
30My skin grows black and peels; my body burns with fever.
31My harp is tuned to mourning, and my flute to the sound of wailing.
31“I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl.
2For what is man’s lot from God above, his heritage from the Almighty on high?
3Is it not ruin for the wicked, disaster for those who do wrong?
4Does he not see my ways and count my every step?
5“If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has hurried after deceit-
6let God weigh me in honest scales and he will know that I am blameless-
7if my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has been led by my eyes, or if my hands have been defiled,
8then may others eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.
9“If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or if I have lurked at my neighbor’s door,
10then may my wife grind another man’s grain, and may other men sleep with her.
11For that would have been shameful, a sin to be judged.
12It is a fire that burns to Destruction ; it would have uprooted my harvest.
13“If I have denied justice to my menservants and maidservants when they had a grievance against me,
14what will I do when God confronts me? What will I answer when called to account?
15Did not he who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us both within our mothers?
16“If I have denied the desires of the poor or let the eyes of the widow grow weary,
17if I have kept my bread to myself, not sharing it with the fatherless-
18but from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my birth I guided the widow-
19if I have seen anyone perishing for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a garment,
20and his heart did not bless me for warming him with the fleece from my sheep,
21if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, knowing that I had influence in court,
22then let my arm fall from the shoulder, let it be broken off at the joint.
23For I dreaded destruction from God, and for fear of his splendor I could not do such things.
24“If I have put my trust in gold or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security,’
25if I have rejoiced over my great wealth, the fortune my hands had gained,
26if I have regarded the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,
27so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand offered them a kiss of homage,
28then these also would be sins to be judged, for I would have been unfaithful to God on high.
29“If I have rejoiced at my enemy’s misfortune or gloated over the trouble that came to him-
30I have not allowed my mouth to sin by invoking a curse against his life-
31if the men of my household have never said, ‘Who has not had his fill of Job’s meat?’-
32but no stranger had to spend the night in the street, for my door was always open to the traveler-
33if I have concealed my sin as men do, by hiding my guilt in my heart
34because I so feared the crowd and so dreaded the contempt of the clans that I kept silent and would not go outside
35(“Oh, that I had someone to hear me! I sign now my defense-let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser put his indictment in writing.
36Surely I would wear it on my shoulder, I would put it on like a crown.
37I would give him an account of my every step; like a prince I would approach him.)-
38“if my land cries out against me and all its furrows are wet with tears,
39if I have devoured its yield without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,
40then let briers come up instead of wheat and weeds instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
January 10 KSC Bible Plan
Welcome to the 2026 King Street Church Bible Reading Plan. This year we will be following the Bible Recap plan.
In your personal journal, consider answering these questions as part of your devotional time:
In this passage…
What do I learn about God?
What do I learn about man?
Is there an example to follow?
What does God want me to believe?
Job 24-28
24“Why does the Almighty not set times for judgment? Why must those who know him look in vain for such days?
2Men move boundary stones; they pasture flocks they have stolen.
3They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
4They thrust the needy from the path and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
5Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go about their labor of foraging food; the wasteland provides food for their children.
6They gather fodder in the fields and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.
7Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked; they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.
8They are drenched by mountain rains and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.
9The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.
10Lacking clothes, they go about naked; they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
11They crush olives among the terraces ; they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
12The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the souls of the wounded cry out for help. But God charges no one with wrongdoing.
13“There are those who rebel against the light, who do not know its ways or stay in its paths.
14When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up and kills the poor and needy; in the night he steals forth like a thief.
15The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk; he thinks, ‘No eye will see me,’ and he keeps his face concealed.
16In the dark, men break into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they want nothing to do with the light.
17For all of them, deep darkness is their morning ; they make friends with the terrors of darkness.
18“Yet they are foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one goes to the vineyards.
19As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow, so the grave snatches away those who have sinned.
20The womb forgets them, the worm feasts on them; evil men are no longer remembered but are broken like a tree.
21They prey on the barren and childless woman, and to the widow show no kindness.
22But God drags away the mighty by his power; though they become established, they have no assurance of life.
23He may let them rest in a feeling of security, but his eyes are on their ways.
24For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.
25“If this is not so, who can prove me false and reduce my words to nothing?”
25Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
2“Dominion and awe belong to God; he establishes order in the heights of heaven.
3Can his forces be numbered? Upon whom does his light not rise?
4How then can a man be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
5If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his eyes,
6how much less man, who is but a maggot- a son of man, who is only a worm!”
26Then Job replied:
2“How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that is feeble!
3What advice you have offered to one without wisdom! And what great insight you have displayed!
4Who has helped you utter these words? And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?
5“The dead are in deep anguish, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
6Death is naked before God; Destruction lies uncovered.
7He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.
8He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.
9He covers the face of the full moon, spreading his clouds over it.
10He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters for a boundary between light and darkness.
11The pillars of the heavens quake, aghast at his rebuke.
12By his power he churned up the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.
13By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the gliding serpent.
14And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”
27And Job continued his discourse:
2“As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made me taste bitterness of soul,
3as long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils,
4my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will utter no deceit.
5I will never admit you are in the right; till I die, I will not deny my integrity.
6I will maintain my righteousness and never let go of it; my conscience will not reproach me as long as I live.
7“May my enemies be like the wicked, my adversaries like the unjust!
8For what hope has the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
9Does God listen to his cry when distress comes upon him?
10Will he find delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
11“I will teach you about the power of God; the ways of the Almighty I will not conceal.
12You have all seen this yourselves. Why then this meaningless talk?
13“Here is the fate God allots to the wicked, the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty:
14However many his children, their fate is the sword; his offspring will never have enough to eat.
15The plague will bury those who survive him, and their widows will not weep for them.
16Though he heaps up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay,
17what he lays up the righteous will wear, and the innocent will divide his silver.
18The house he builds is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman.
19He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.
20Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest snatches him away in the night.
21The east wind carries him off, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
22It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.
23It claps its hands in derision and hisses him out of his place.
28“There is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.
2Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.
3Man puts an end to the darkness; he searches the farthest recesses for ore in the blackest darkness.
4Far from where people dwell he cuts a shaft, in places forgotten by the foot of man; far from men he dangles and sways.
5The earth, from which food comes, is transformed below as by fire;
6sapphires come from its rocks, and its dust contains nuggets of gold.
7No bird of prey knows that hidden path, no falcon’s eye has seen it.
8Proud beasts do not set foot on it, and no lion prowls there.
9Man’s hand assaults the flinty rock and lays bare the roots of the mountains.
10He tunnels through the rock; his eyes see all its treasures.
11He searches the sources of the rivers and brings hidden things to light.
12“But where can wisdom be found? Where does understanding dwell?
13Man does not comprehend its worth; it cannot be found in the land of the living.
14The deep says, ‘It is not in me’; the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’
15It cannot be bought with the finest gold, nor can its price be weighed in silver.
16It cannot be bought with the gold of Ophir, with precious onyx or sapphires.
17Neither gold nor crystal can compare with it, nor can it be had for jewels of gold.
18Coral and jasper are not worthy of mention; the price of wisdom is beyond rubies.
19The topaz of Cush cannot compare with it; it cannot be bought with pure gold.
20“Where then does wisdom come from? Where does understanding dwell?
21It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing, concealed even from the birds of the air.
22Destruction and Death say, ‘Only a rumor of it has reached our ears.’
23God understands the way to it and he alone knows where it dwells,
24for he views the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.
25When he established the force of the wind and measured out the waters,
26when he made a decree for the rain and a path for the thunderstorm,
27then he looked at wisdom and appraised it; he confirmed it and tested it.
28And he said to man, ‘The fear of the Lord-that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding.’ “
January 9 KSC Bible Plan
Welcome to the 2026 King Street Church Bible Reading Plan. This year we will be following the Bible Recap plan.
In your personal journal, consider answering these questions as part of your devotional time:
In this passage…
What do I learn about God?
What do I learn about man?
Is there an example to follow?
What does God want me to believe?
Job 21-23
21Then Job replied:
2“Listen carefully to my words; let this be the consolation you give me.
3Bear with me while I speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.
4“Is my complaint directed to man? Why should I not be impatient?
5Look at me and be astonished; clap your hand over your mouth.
6When I think about this, I am terrified; trembling seizes my body.
7Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
8They see their children established around them, their offspring before their eyes.
9Their homes are safe and free from fear; the rod of God is not upon them.
10Their bulls never fail to breed; their cows calve and do not miscarry.
11They send forth their children as a flock; their little ones dance about.
12They sing to the music of tambourine and harp; they make merry to the sound of the flute.
13They spend their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.
14Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways.
15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain by praying to him?’
16But their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stand aloof from the counsel of the wicked.
17“Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out? How often does calamity come upon them, the fate God allots in his anger?
18How often are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a gale?
19It is said, ‘God stores up a man’s punishment for his sons.’ Let him repay the man himself, so that he will know it!
20Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21For what does he care about the family he leaves behind when his allotted months come to an end?
22“Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he judges even the highest?
23One man dies in full vigor, completely secure and at ease,
24his body well nourished, his bones rich with marrow.
25Another man dies in bitterness of soul, never having enjoyed anything good.
26Side by side they lie in the dust, and worms cover them both.
27“I know full well what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
28You say, ‘Where now is the great man’s house, the tents where wicked men lived?’
29Have you never questioned those who travel? Have you paid no regard to their accounts-
30that the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, that he is delivered from the day of wrath?
31Who denounces his conduct to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?
32He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.
33The soil in the valley is sweet to him; all men follow after him, and a countless throng goes before him.
34“So how can you console me with your nonsense? Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood!”
22Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2“Can a man be of benefit to God? Can even a wise man benefit him?
3What pleasure would it give the Almighty if you were righteous? What would he gain if your ways were blameless?
4“Is it for your piety that he rebukes you and brings charges against you?
5Is not your wickedness great? Are not your sins endless?
6You demanded security from your brothers for no reason; you stripped men of their clothing, leaving them naked.
7You gave no water to the weary and you withheld food from the hungry,
8though you were a powerful man, owning land- an honored man, living on it.
9And you sent widows away empty-handed and broke the strength of the fatherless.
10That is why snares are all around you, why sudden peril terrifies you,
11why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.
12“Is not God in the heights of heaven? And see how lofty are the highest stars!
13Yet you say, ‘What does God know? Does he judge through such darkness?
14Thick clouds veil him, so he does not see us as he goes about in the vaulted heavens.’
15Will you keep to the old path that evil men have trod?
16They were carried off before their time, their foundations washed away by a flood.
17They said to God, ‘Leave us alone! What can the Almighty do to us?’
18Yet it was he who filled their houses with good things, so I stand aloof from the counsel of the wicked.
19“The righteous see their ruin and rejoice; the innocent mock them, saying,
20‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire devours their wealth.’
21“Submit to God and be at peace with him; in this way prosperity will come to you.
22Accept instruction from his mouth and lay up his words in your heart.
23If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored: If you remove wickedness far from your tent
24and assign your nuggets to the dust, your gold of Ophir to the rocks in the ravines,
25then the Almighty will be your gold, the choicest silver for you.
26Surely then you will find delight in the Almighty and will lift up your face to God.
27You will pray to him, and he will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows.
28What you decide on will be done, and light will shine on your ways.
29When men are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then he will save the downcast.
30He will deliver even one who is not innocent, who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”
23Then Job replied:
2“Even today my complaint is bitter; his hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
3If only I knew where to find him; if only I could go to his dwelling!
4I would state my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
5I would find out what he would answer me, and consider what he would say.
6Would he oppose me with great power? No, he would not press charges against me.
7There an upright man could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.
8“But if I go to the east, he is not there; if I go to the west, I do not find him.
9When he is at work in the north, I do not see him; when he turns to the south, I catch no glimpse of him.
10But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
11My feet have closely followed his steps; I have kept to his way without turning aside.
12I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.
13“But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? He does whatever he pleases.
14He carries out his decree against me, and many such plans he still has in store.
15That is why I am terrified before him; when I think of all this, I fear him.
16God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.
17Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.
January 8 KSC Bible Plan
Welcome to the 2026 King Street Church Bible Reading Plan. This year we will be following the Bible Recap plan.
In your personal journal, consider answering these questions as part of your devotional time:
In this passage…
What do I learn about God?
What do I learn about man?
Is there an example to follow?
What does God want me to believe?
Job 17-20
17My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave awaits me.
2Surely mockers surround me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
3“Give me, O God, the pledge you demand. Who else will put up security for me?
4You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore you will not let them triumph.
5If a man denounces his friends for reward, the eyes of his children will fail.
6“God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit.
7My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.
8Upright men are appalled at this; the innocent are aroused against the ungodly.
9Nevertheless, the righteous will hold to their ways, and those with clean hands will grow stronger.
10“But come on, all of you, try again! I will not find a wise man among you.
11My days have passed, my plans are shattered, and so are the desires of my heart.
12These men turn night into day; in the face of darkness they say, ‘Light is near.’
13If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
14if I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’
15where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
16Will it go down to the gates of death ? Will we descend together into the dust?”
18Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
2“When will you end these speeches? Be sensible, and then we can talk.
3Why are we regarded as cattle and considered stupid in your sight?
4You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, is the earth to be abandoned for your sake? Or must the rocks be moved from their place?
5“The lamp of the wicked is snuffed out; the flame of his fire stops burning.
6The light in his tent becomes dark; the lamp beside him goes out.
7The vigor of his step is weakened; his own schemes throw him down.
8His feet thrust him into a net and he wanders into its mesh.
9A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds him fast.
10A noose is hidden for him on the ground; a trap lies in his path.
11Terrors startle him on every side and dog his every step.
12Calamity is hungry for him; disaster is ready for him when he falls.
13It eats away parts of his skin; death’s firstborn devours his limbs.
14He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.
15Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.
16His roots dry up below and his branches wither above.
17The memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name in the land.
18He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.
19He has no offspring or descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived.
20Men of the west are appalled at his fate; men of the east are seized with horror.
21Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man; such is the place of one who knows not God.”
19Then Job replied:
2“How long will you torment me and crush me with words?
3Ten times now you have reproached me; shamelessly you attack me.
4If it is true that I have gone astray, my error remains my concern alone.
5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me,
6then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me.
7“Though I cry, ‘I’ve been wronged!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; he has shrouded my paths in darkness.
9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
10He tears me down on every side till I am gone; he uproots my hope like a tree.
11His anger burns against me; he counts me among his enemies.
12His troops advance in force; they build a siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
13“He has alienated my brothers from me; my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
14My kinsmen have gone away; my friends have forgotten me.
15My guests and my maidservants count me a stranger; they look upon me as an alien.
16I summon my servant, but he does not answer, though I beg him with my own mouth.
17My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own brothers.
18Even the little boys scorn me; when I appear, they ridicule me.
19All my intimate friends detest me; those I love have turned against me.
20I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped with only the skin of my teeth.
21“Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
22Why do you pursue me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
23“Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll,
24that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock forever!
25I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth.
26And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God;
27I myself will see him with my own eyes-I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!
28“If you say, ‘How we will hound him, since the root of the trouble lies in him, ‘
29you should fear the sword yourselves; for wrath will bring punishment by the sword, and then you will know that there is judgment. “
20Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
2“My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer because I am greatly disturbed.
3I hear a rebuke that dishonors me, and my understanding inspires me to reply.
4“Surely you know how it has been from of old, ever since man was placed on the earth,
5that the mirth of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.
6Though his pride reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds,
7he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
8Like a dream he flies away, no more to be found, banished like a vision of the night.
9The eye that saw him will not see him again; his place will look on him no more.
10His children must make amends to the poor; his own hands must give back his wealth.
11The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie with him in the dust.
12“Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,
13though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,
14yet his food will turn sour in his stomach; it will become the venom of serpents within him.
15He will spit out the riches he swallowed; God will make his stomach vomit them up.
16He will suck the poison of serpents; the fangs of an adder will kill him.
17He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.
18What he toiled for he must give back uneaten; he will not enjoy the profit from his trading.
19For he has oppressed the poor and left them destitute; he has seized houses he did not build.
20“Surely he will have no respite from his craving; he cannot save himself by his treasure.
21Nothing is left for him to devour; his prosperity will not endure.
22In the midst of his plenty, distress will overtake him; the full force of misery will come upon him.
23When he has filled his belly, God will vent his burning anger against him and rain down his blows upon him.
24Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow pierces him.
25He pulls it out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver. Terrors will come over him;
26total darkness lies in wait for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
27The heavens will expose his guilt; the earth will rise up against him.
28A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.
29Such is the fate God allots the wicked, the heritage appointed for them by God.”
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