Bible Reading Plans
I am no longer creating Bible Reading Plans as I've discovered this nifty Bible Reading Plan Generator that allows you to input your preferences and create your own. You can choose Old Testament, New Testament, or both. You can read straight through or chronologically arranged, what date to start, how long you'd like to take, which days per week, and whether you'd like to include little checkboxes. It makes my plans, which may have an error or two, obsolete.
Read through the entire Bible: choose how long you want to take -- either 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 4, or 5 years -- and choose how you want readings arranged:
• straight through from Genesis to Revelation
• more chronologically, with readings scheduled closer to their historical time period
• or, for those who tend to lose momentum in long books like I Chronicles and Isaiah, a varied plan that provides frequent change by seaming together chronologically-arranged Old Testament readings with the gospels, keeping a chronological arrangement of Acts and Epistles, and interspersing Psalms and Proverbs throughout.
The longer you take to go through the Bible, the shorter each daily reading is. Each plan has a target length, though most days were a little over or a little under the target. To get an idea of how long the readings are, here are some chapters that worked out to the perfect target length for that plan:
One Year: Judges 9 and 10; 1 Samuel 5-8; 1 Samuel 9-11
Two Years: Isaiah 37; Galatians 5 and 6; Acts 16; Acts 20
Three Years: Genesis 34; Exodus 22; Isaiah 49; Ezekiel 46
Four Years: Leviticus 9; Numbers 5; Nehemiah 8; Jeremiah 27
Five Years: Proverbs 26; Exodus 24; Joshua 12; Galatians 1
One Year Plan
• Go through the entire Bible straight through from Genesis to Revelation in a year, 365 readings. Click Here.
• Go through the Bible loosely chronologically in a year, 365 readings. Click Here. This plan is available with links to Bible Gateway's KJV, NKJV, or NLT.
One-and-a-Half Year Plan (The 1 1/2 year plans include two cycles, making a three-year schedule)
• Go through the entire Bible straight through from Genesis to Revelation twice in a three-year period, 364 readings a year. Click Here.
• Go through the entire Bible straight through from Genesis to Revelation twice in a three-year period, 365 readings a year, with an extra helping of Psalms and Proverbs. Click Here This plan is available with links to Bible Gateway's KJV, NKJV, or NLT.
• Go through the Bible more chronologically in one and a half years, 365 readings a year. Two rotations are included for a total of three years. Click Here. This plan is available with links to Bible Gateway's KJV, NKJV, or NLT.
Two Year Plans
• Go through the entire Bible straight through from Genesis to Revelation in a two-year period, 365 readings a year. Click Here
• Go through the entire Bible more chronologically, 365 readings a year. Click Here.
• Go through the entire Bible semi-chronologically, in two years with frequent changes to break up longer books, 365 readings a year. Click Here. This plan is available with links to Bible Gateway's KJV, NKJV, or NLT.
Two-and-a-Half Year Plans (The 2 1/2 year plans include two cycles, making a five-year schedule)
• Go through the entire Bible straight through from Genesis to Revelation twice in a five-year period, 365 readings a year. Click Here
• Go through the Bible more chronologically in two and a half years, 365 readings a year. Two rotations are included for a total of five years. Click Here.
• Go through the entire Bible semi-chronologically, in two and a half years with frequent changes to break up longer books, 365 readings a year. Click Here. This plan is available with links to Bible Gateway's KJV, NKJV, or NLT.
Three Year Plans
• Go through the entire Bible straight through from Genesis to Revelation (Psalms and Proverbs are read twice) in three years, 365 readings a year. Click Here
• Go through the Bible more chronologically in three years, 365 readings a year -- Psalms and Proverbs are scheduled twice. Click Here.
• Go through the entire Bible semi-chronologically, in three years with frequent changes to break up longer books, 365 readings a year. Click Here. This plan is available with links to Bible Gateway's KJV, NKJV, or NLT.
Four Year Plans
• Go through the entire Bible straight through from Genesis to Revelation (Psalms and Proverbs are read twice) in a four-year period, 365 readings a year. Click Here
• Go through the Bible more chronologically in four years, 365 readings a year -- Psalms and Proverbs are scheduled twice. Click Here.
• Go through the entire Bible semi-chronologically, in four years with frequent changes to break up longer books, 365 readings a year. Click Here
• A crazier four year plan with even more frequent changes to break up the reading. This plan is available with links to Bible Gateway's KJV, NKJV, NLT, or BSB.
Five Year Plans
• Go through the entire Bible straight through from Genesis to Revelation (Psalms and Proverbs are read twice) in a five-year period, 365 readings a year. Click Here
• Go through the Bible more chronologically in five years, 365 readings a year -- Psalms and Proverbs are scheduled twice. Click Here.
• Go through the entire Bible semi-chronologically, in five years with frequent changes to break up longer books, 365 readings a year. Click Here
Or, for something totally different, there's a plan that takes five years to go through the entire Bible, 365 readings a year, by mixing things up for variety. View it here. This is not scheduled chronologically at all; books were arranged solely to keep things interesting. I originally started using this plan myself in 2019, so it's labelled with years, but a month into this plan, I decided to pick up the pace, and switched to something quicker.