One Year Bible.

From Adam to Abraham

¹Adam, Seth, Enosh,

²Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,

³Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah.

⁴The sons of Noah:

Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

⁵The sons of Japheth:

Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

⁶The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

⁷And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.

⁸The sons of Ham:

Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

⁹The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca.

The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

¹⁰Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth.

¹¹Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtuhites, ¹²the Pathrusites, the Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.

¹³And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites, ¹⁴the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, ¹⁵the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, ¹⁶the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites.

¹⁷The sons of Shem:

Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.

The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.

¹⁸Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.

¹⁹Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan.

²⁰And Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, ²¹Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, ²²Obal, Abimael, Sheba, ²³Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.

²⁴So from Shem came Arphaxad, Shelah, ²⁵Eber, Peleg, Reu, ²⁶Serug, Nahor, Terah, ²⁷and Abram (that is, Abraham).

The Descendants of Abraham

²⁸The sons of Abraham were Isaac and Ishmael. ²⁹These are their genealogies:

Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, ³⁰Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema, ³¹Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These were the sons of Ishmael.

³²The sons born to Keturah, Abraham’s concubine:

Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

The sons of Jokshan:

Sheba and Dedan.

³³The sons of Midian:

Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah.

All of these were Keturah’s sons.

³⁴Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac:

Esau and Israel.

The Descendants of Esau

³⁵The sons of Esau:

Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.

³⁶The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz; and by Timna, Amalek.

³⁷The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.

The Descendants of Seir

³⁸The sons of Seir:

Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.

³⁹The sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam. Timna was Lotan’s sister.

⁴⁰The sons of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.

The sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah.

⁴¹The son of Anah: Dishon.

The sons of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.

⁴²The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.

The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

The Kings of Edom

⁴³These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites:

Bela son of Beor. His city was named Dinhabah.

⁴⁴When Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah reigned in his place.

⁴⁵When Jobab died, Husham from the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.

⁴⁶When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith.

⁴⁷When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah reigned in his place.

⁴⁸When Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth on the Euphrates reigned in his place.

⁴⁹When Shaul died, Baal-hanan son of Achbor reigned in his place.

⁵⁰When Baal-hanan died, Hadad reigned in his place. His city was named Pau, and his wife’s name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.

⁵¹Then Hadad died.

Now the chiefs of Edom were Timna, Alvah, Jetheth, ⁵²Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, ⁵³Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, ⁵⁴Magdiel, and Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom.

Paul and the False Apostles

¹I hope you will put up with a little of my foolishness, but you are already doing that. ²I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

³I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ. ⁴For if someone comes and proclaims a Jesus other than the One we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit than the One you received, or a different gospel than the one you accepted, you put up with it very easily.

⁵I consider myself in no way inferior to those “super-apostles.” ⁶Although I am not a polished speaker, I am certainly not lacking in knowledge. We have made this clear to you in every way possible.

⁷Was it a sin for me to humble myself in order to exalt you, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge? ⁸I robbed other churches by accepting their support in order to serve you. ⁹And when I was with you and in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my needs. I have refrained from being a burden to you in any way, and I will continue to do so. ¹⁰As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia. ¹¹Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

¹²But I will keep on doing what I am doing, in order to undercut those who want an opportunity to be regarded as our equals in the things of which they boast. ¹³For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. ¹⁴And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. ¹⁵It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their actions.

Paul’s Suffering and Service

¹⁶I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then receive me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little. ¹⁷In this confident boasting of mine, I am not speaking as the Lord would, but as a fool. ¹⁸Since many are boasting according to the flesh, I too will boast. ¹⁹For you gladly put up with fools, since you are so wise. ²⁰In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or exalts himself or strikes you in the face. ²¹To my shame I concede that we were too weak for that!

Speaking as a fool, however, I can match what anyone else dares to boast about. ²²Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I. ²³Are they servants of Christ? (I am speaking as if I were out of my mind.) I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death. ²⁴Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. ²⁵Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.

²⁶In my frequent journeys, I have been in danger from rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the Gentiles, in danger in the city and in the country, in danger on the sea and among false brothers, ²⁷in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.

²⁸Apart from these external trials, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches. ²⁹Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with grief?

³⁰If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. ³¹The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is forever worthy of praise, knows that I am not lying. ³²In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas secured the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me. ³³But I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his grasp.

Eliphaz Continues: God Blesses those Who Seek Him

¹“Call out if you please, but who will answer?

To which of the holy ones will you turn?

²For resentment kills a fool,

and envy slays the simple.

³I have seen a fool taking root,

but suddenly his house was cursed.

⁴His sons are far from safety,

crushed in court without a defender.

⁵The hungry consume his harvest,

taking it even from the thorns,

and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

⁶For distress does not spring from the dust,

and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

⁷Yet man is born to trouble

as surely as sparks fly upward.

⁸However, if I were you, I would appeal to God

and lay my cause before Him—

⁹the One who does great and unsearchable things,

wonders without number.

¹⁰He gives rain to the earth

and sends water upon the fields.

¹¹He sets the lowly on high,

so that mourners are lifted to safety.

¹²He thwarts the schemes of the crafty,

so that their hands find no success.

¹³He catches the wise in their craftiness,

and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.

¹⁴They encounter darkness by day

and grope at noon as in the night.

¹⁵He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth

and from the clutches of the powerful.

¹⁶So the poor have hope,

and injustice shuts its mouth.

¹⁷Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects;

so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

¹⁸For He wounds, but He also binds;

He strikes, but His hands also heal.

¹⁹He will rescue you from six calamities;

no harm will touch you in seven.

²⁰In famine He will redeem you from death,

and in battle from the stroke of the sword.

²¹You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue,

and will not fear havoc when it comes.

²²You will laugh at destruction and famine,

and need not fear the beasts of the earth.

²³For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field,

and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

²⁴You will know that your tent is secure,

and find nothing amiss when inspecting your home.

²⁵You will know that your offspring will be many,

your descendants like the grass of the earth.

²⁶You will come to the grave in full vigor,

like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.

²⁷Indeed, we have investigated, and it is true!

So hear it and know for yourself.”

Israel’s Kingdom Blessing

¹A song. A Psalm of David.

My heart is steadfast, O God;

I will sing and make music with all my being.

²Awake, O harp and lyre!

I will awaken the dawn.

³I will praise You, O LORD, among the nations;

I will sing Your praises among the peoples.

⁴For Your loving devotion extends beyond the heavens,

and Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

⁵Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;

may Your glory cover all the earth.

⁶Respond and save us with Your right hand,

that Your beloved may be delivered.

⁷God has spoken from His sanctuary:

“I will triumph!

I will parcel out Shechem

and apportion the Valley of Succoth.

⁸Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine;

Ephraim is My helmet, Judah is My scepter.

⁹Moab is My washbasin;

upon Edom I toss My sandal;

over Philistia I shout in triumph.”

¹⁰Who will bring me to the fortified city?

Who will lead me to Edom?

¹¹Have You not rejected us, O God?

Will You no longer march out, O God, with our armies?

¹²Give us aid against the enemy,

for the help of man is worthless.

¹³With God we will perform with valor,

and He will trample our enemies.