Study the Basic English Bible in 1 year

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 house of the God of Jacob: and he will give us knowledge of his ways, and we will be guided by his word; for out of Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4. And he will be the judge between the nations, and the peoples will be ruled by his decisions: and their swords will be turned into plough-blades, and their spears into vine-knives: no longer will the nations be turning their swords against one another, and the knowledge of war will be gone for ever.
5. O family of Jacob, come, and let us go in the light of the Lord.
; AB church Lausanne

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 hand would be under my head, and his right hand about me.
4. I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not let love be moved till it is ready.
5. Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in pain at your birth.
; AB church Lausanne

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 beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.
3. I have put off my coat; how may I put it on? My feet are washed; how may I make them unclean?
4. My loved one put his hand on the door, and my heart was moved for him.
5. I got up to let my loved one in; and my hands were dropping with myrrh, and my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the lock of the door.
; AB church Lausanne

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 of wine, and his flag over me was love.
5. Make me strong with wine-cakes, let me be comforted with apples; I am overcome with love.
; AB church Lausanne

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 the north, in whatever place it comes down, there it will be.
4. He who is watching the wind will not get the seed planted, and he who is looking at the clouds will not get in the grain.
5. As you have no knowledge of the way of the wind, or of the growth of the bones in the body of her who is with child, even so you have no knowledge of the works of God who has made all.
; AB church Lausanne