Study the Basic English Bible in 1 year

273 : Basic English : Isaiah 37,38; 2 Corinthians 10 1. And on hearing it Hezekiah took off his robe and put on haircloth and went into the house of the Lord. 2. And he sent Eliakim, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the chief priests, dressed in haircloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. 3. And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment a...

272 : Basic English : Isaiah 34,35,36; 2 Corinthians 9 1. Come near, you nations, and give ear; take note, you peoples: let the earth and everything in it give ear; the world and all those living in it. 2. For the Lord is angry with all the nations, and his wrath is burning against all their armies: he has put them to the curse, he has given them to destruction. 3. Their dead bodies will be thick...

271 : Basic English : Isaiah 32,33; 2 Corinthians 8 1. See, a king will be ruling in righteousness, and chiefs will give right decisions. 2. And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land. 3. And the eyes of those who see will not be shut, and those who have hearing will give ear to the wo...

270 : Basic English : Isaiah 30,31; 2 Corinthians 7 1. Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but not by my spirit, increasing their sin: 2. Who make a move to go down into Egypt, without authority from me; who are looking to the strength of Pharaoh for help, and whose hope is in the shade of Egypt. 3. And the strength o...

269 : Basic English : Isaiah 28,29; 2 Corinthians 6 1. Ho! crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim, and the dead flower of his glory which is on the head of those who are overcome by strong drink! 2. See, the Lord has a strong and cruel one; like a rain of ice, a storm of destruction, like the overflowing of a strong river, he will violently overcome them. 3. The crown of pride...

268 : Basic English : Isaiah 25,26,27; 2 Corinthians 5 1. O Lord, you are my God; I will give praise to you, I will give honour to your name; for you have done great acts of power; your purposes in the past have been made true and certain in effect. 2. For you have made a town a waste place: a strong town a mass of broken walls; the tower of the men of pride has come to an end; it will never be pu...

267 : Basic English : Isaiah 23,24; 2 Corinthians 4 1. The word about Tyre. Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish, because your strong place is made waste; on the way back from the land of Kittim the news is given to them. 2. Send out a cry of grief, you men of the sea-land, traders of Zidon, who go over the sea, whose representatives are on great waters; 3. Who get in the seed of Shihor,...

266 : Basic English : Isaiah 20,21,22; 2 Corinthians 3 1. In the year when the Tartan came to Ashdod, sent by Sargon, king of Assyria, and made war against it and took it; 2. At that time the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and take off your robe, and your shoes from your feet; and he did so, walking unclothed and without shoes on his feet. 3. And the Lord said, As my...

265 : Basic English : Isaiah 16,17,18,19; 2 Corinthians 2 1. And they will send ... to the mountain of the daughter of Zion. 2. For the daughters of Moab will be like wandering birds, like a place from which the young birds have gone in flight, at the ways across the Arnon. 3. Give wise directions, make a decision; let your shade be as night in full day: keep safe those who are in flight; do not g...

264 : Basic English : Isaiah 14,15; 2 Corinthians 1 1. For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will again make Israel his special people, and will put them in their land; and the man from a strange country will take his place among them and be joined to the family of Jacob. 2. And the people will take them with them to their place: and the children of Israel will give them a heritage in the Lor...

263 : Basic English : Isaiah 11,12,13; 1 Corinthians 16 1. And there will come a rod out of the broken tree of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will give fruit. 2. And the spirit of the Lord will be resting on him, the spirit of wisdom and good sense, the spirit of wise guiding and strength, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; 3. And he will not be guided in his judging by wha...

262 : Basic English : Isaiah 9,10; 1 Corinthians 15 1. In earlier times he made the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali of small value, but after that he gave it glory, by the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the nations. 2. The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the light is shining. 3. Y...

261 : Basic English : Isaiah 7,8; 1 Corinthians 14 1. Now it came about in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin, the king of Aram, and Pekah, the son of Remaliah, the king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but were not able to overcome it. 2. And word came to the family of David that Aram had put up its tents in Ephraim. And the ki...

260 : Basic English : Isaiah 4,5,6; 1 Corinthians 13 1. And in that day seven women will put their hands on one man, saying, There will be no need for you to give us food or clothing, only let us go under your name, so that our shame may be taken away. 2. In that day will the young growth of the Lord be beautiful in glory, and the fruit of the earth will be the pride of those who are still living...

259 : Basic English : Isaiah 2,3; 1 Corinthians 12 1. The word which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw about Judah and Jerusalem. 2. And it will come about in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and all nations will come to it. 3. And the peoples will say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the hou...

258 : Basic English : Song of Solomon 8; Isaiah 1; 1 Corinthians 11 1. Oh that you were my brother, who took milk from my mother's breasts! When I came to you in the street, I would give you kisses; yes, I would not be looked down on. 2. I would take you by the hand into my mother's house, and she would be my teacher. I would give you drink of spiced wine, drink of the pomegranate. 3. His left han...

257 : Basic English : Song of Solomon 5,6,7; 1 Corinthians 10 1. I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; to take my myrrh with my spice; my wax with my honey; my wine with my milk. Take meat, O friends; take wine, yes, be overcome with love. 2. I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very bea...

256 : Basic English : Song of Solomon 2,3,4; 1 Corinthians 9 1. I am a rose of Sharon, a flower of the valleys. 2. As the lily-flower among the thorns of the waste, so is my love among the daughters. 3. As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. 4. He took me to the house...

255 : Basic English : Ecclesiastes 11,12; Song of Solomon 1; 1 Corinthians 8 1. Put out your bread on the face of the waters; for after a long time it will come back to you again. 2. Give a part to seven or even to eight, because you have no knowledge of the evil which will be on the earth. 3. If the clouds are full of rain, they send it down on the earth; and if a tree comes down to the south, or...

254 : Basic English : Ecclesiastes 8,9,10; 1 Corinthians 7 1. Who is like the wise man? and to whom is the sense of anything clear? A man's wisdom makes his face shining, and his hard face will be changed. 2. I say to you, Keep the king's law, from respect for the oath of God. 3. Be not quick to go from before him. Be not fixed in an evil design, because he does whatever is pleasing to him. 4. The...

253 : Basic English : Ecclesiastes 5,6,7; 1 Corinthians 6 1. Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil. 2. Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the...

252 : Basic English : Ecclesiastes 3,4; 1 Corinthians 5 1. For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun. 2. A time for birth and a time for death; a time for planting and a time for uprooting; 3. A time to put to death and a time to make well; a time for pulling down and a time for building up; 4. A time for weeping and a time for laughing; a time for sorrow an...

251 : Basic English : Ecclesiastes 1,2; 1 Corinthians 4 1. The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. 2. All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose. 3. What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun? 4. One generation goes and another comes; but the earth is for ever. 5. The sun comes up and the sun goes down, and goes qu...

250 : Basic English : Job 41,42; 1 Corinthians 3 1. Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth? 2. Will you put a cord into his nose, or take him away with a cord round his tongue? 3. Will he make prayers to you, or say soft words to you? 4. Will he make an agreement with you, so that you may take him as a servant for ever?...

249 : Basic English : Job 39,40; 1 Corinthians 2 1. Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young? 2. Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you? 3. They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body. 4. Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they...