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If I decide to read more than one verse a day, there’s a pretty nice online reading plan called Biblica. They have a Bible in a Year: 365-Day Reading Plan. Every day you read sections from the Old Testament, the New Testament, and Psalms or Proverbs. For example, today – December 6 – we’re on the 340th day of the year. The 340th day’s readings are in Haggai, 2 John, and Proverbs. You can choose a version of the bible you like and read it right there on the Biblica page.
Gideons is another combination plan: two readings a day – one from the Old Testament, one from the New Testament. Completely different content than Biblica – Gideons December 6 readings are in Daniel and 1 John. There’s a calendar of daily readings on the front page to track your progress.
Two blended-reading plans. I like both of them.

Notes:
Biblica – The International Bible Society: https://www.biblica.com/resources/reading-plans/
Gideons International: https://www.gideons.org/read-the-bible

Yesterday I mentioned a guy who had a bible reading plan. It was to read one verse a day. It seemed like a pretty good thing to me that the guy had a plan and was working it.
I was curious enough about it to run a couple of numbers to see how long it would take to get through the bible by reading at that rate.
There are more than 31,000 verses in the bible, so I calculated that at 365 verses per year it would take a little over 85 years to read through the whole book, one verse per day. So if I did want to read the whole bible I would have to start when I was young – probably no older than ten – and I would hope that medical and health technologies advanced rapidly enough that I lived ninety-five years. At which point I would get to Revelation 22.

I heard about a guy whose personal bible reading plan was to read one verse a day.
One of the Medicine Hat Joe Bible Readers’ Principles is that one verse a day is better than no verses a day. Way better; hands down better. The difference between one verse a day and no verses a day is monumental. By contrast, the difference between one verse a day and, let’s say ten verses a day, or three chapters a day is not that big.
Anyway,  I’ve already made my decision to read some verses versus no verses. Now here’s the less important question to ask: how many verses am I going to read? Will I read one or more than one?