Study the Basic English Bible in 1 year

283 : Basic English : Isaiah 61,62,63; Ephesians 1 1. The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;
2. To give knowledge that the year of the Lord's good pleasure has come, and the day of punishment from our God; to give comfort to all who are sad;
3. To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.
4. And they will be building again the old broken walls, and will make new the old waste places, and will put up again the towns which have been waste for long generations.
5. And men from strange countries will be your herdsmen, and those who are not Israelites will be your ploughmen and vine-keepers.
; AB church Lausanne

282 : Basic English : Isaiah 59,60; Galatians 6 1. Truly, the Lord's hand has not become short, so that he is unable to give salvation; and his ear is not shut from hearing:
2. But your sins have come between you and your God, and by your evil doings his face has been veiled from you, so that he will give you no answer.
3. For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.
4. No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.
5. They give birth to snake's eggs, and make spider's threads: whoever takes their eggs for food comes to his death, and the egg which is crushed becomes a poison-snake.
; AB church Lausanne

281 : Basic English : Isaiah 56,57,58; Galatians 5 1. The Lord says, Let your way of life be upright, and let your behaviour be rightly ordered: for my salvation is near, and my righteousness will quickly be seen.
2. Happy is the man who does this, and the son of man whose behaviour is so ordered; who keeps the Sabbath holy, and his hand from doing any evil.
3. And let not the man from a strange country, who has been joined to the Lord, say, The Lord will certainly put a division between me and his people: and let not the unsexed man say, See, I am a dry tree.
4. For the Lord says, As for the unsexed who keep my Sabbaths, and give their hearts to pleasing me, and keep their agreement with me:
5. I will give to them in my house, and inside my walls, a place and a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an eternal name which will not be cut off.
; AB church Lausanne

280 : Basic English : Isaiah 53,54,55; Galatians 4 1. Who would have had faith in the word which has come to our ears, and to whom had the arm of the Lord been unveiled?
2. For his growth was like that of a delicate plant before him, and like a root out of a dry place: he had no grace of form, to give us pleasure;
3. Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.
4. But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.
5. But it was for our sins he was wounded, and for our evil doings he was crushed: he took the punishment by which we have peace, and by his wounds we are made well.
; AB church Lausanne

279 : Basic English : Isaiah 50,51,52; Galatians 3 1. This is the word of the Lord: Where is the statement which I gave your mother when I put her away? or to which of my creditors have I given you for money? It was for your sins that you were given into the hands of others, and for your evil-doing was your mother put away.
2. Why, then, when I came, was there no man? and no one to give answer to my voice? has my hand become feeble, so that it is unable to take up your cause? or have I no power to make you free? See, at my word the sea becomes dry, I make the rivers a waste land: their fish are dead for need of water, and make an evil smell.
3. By me the heavens are clothed with black, and I make haircloth their robe.
4. The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are experienced, so that I may be able to give the word a special sense for the feeble: every morning my ear is open to his teaching, like those who are experienced:
5. And I have not put myself against him, or let my heart be turned back from him.
; AB church Lausanne