Study the Basic English Bible in 1 year

291 : Basic English : Jeremiah 13,14; Philippians 3 1. This is what the Lord said to me: Go and get yourself a linen band and put it round you and do not put it in water.
2. So, as the Lord said, I got a band for a price and put it round my body.
3. And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying,
4. Take the band which you got for a price, which is round your body, and go to Parah and put it in a secret place there in a hole of the rock.
5. So I went and put it in a secret place by Parah, as the Lord had said to me.
; AB church Lausanne

290 : Basic English : Jeremiah 11,12; Philippians 2 1. The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
2. Give ear to the words of this agreement, and say to the men of Judah and to the people of Jerusalem,
3. The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Let that man be cursed who does not give ear to the words of this agreement,
4. To the order which I gave your fathers on the day when I took them out of the land of Egypt, out of the oven of iron, saying, Give ear to my voice, and do all the orders I have given you: so you will be my people, and I will be your God:
5. So that I may give effect to the oath which I made to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey as at this day. And I said in answer, So be it, O Lord.
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289 : Basic English : Jeremiah 9,10; Philippians 1 1. If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!
2. If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.
3. Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.
4. Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil.
5. Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.
; AB church Lausanne

288 : Basic English : Jeremiah 7,8; Ephesians 6 1. The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
2. Take your place in the doorway of the Lord's house, and give out this word there, and say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who come inside these doors to give worship to the Lord.
3. The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, says, Let your ways and your doings be changed for the better and I will let you go on living in this place.
4. Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.
5. For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour;
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287 : Basic English : Jeremiah 5,6; Ephesians 5 1. Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness.
2. And though they say, By the living Lord; truly their oaths are false.
3. O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.
4. Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.
5. I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.
; AB church Lausanne