Study the Basic English Bible in 1 year

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

254 : Basic English : Ecclesiastes 8,9,10; 1 Corinthians 7 1. Who is like the wise man? and to whom is the sense of anything clear? A man's wisdom makes his face shining, and his hard face will be changed.
2. I say to you, Keep the king's law, from respect for the oath of God.
3. Be not quick to go from before him. Be not fixed in an evil design, because he does whatever is pleasing to him.
4. The word of a king has authority; and who may say to him, What is this you are doing?
5. Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision.
; AB church Lausanne

253 : Basic English : Ecclesiastes 5,6,7; 1 Corinthians 6 1. Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.
2. Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.
3. As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.
4. When you take an oath before God, put it quickly into effect, because he has no pleasure in the foolish; keep the oath you have taken.
5. It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it.
; AB church Lausanne