Study the Basic English Bible in 1 year

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

252 : Basic English : Ecclesiastes 3,4; 1 Corinthians 5 1. For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.
2. A time for birth and a time for death; a time for planting and a time for uprooting;
3. A time to put to death and a time to make well; a time for pulling down and a time for building up;
4. A time for weeping and a time for laughing; a time for sorrow and a time for dancing;
5. A time to take stones away and a time to get stones together; a time for kissing and a time to keep from kissing;
; AB church Lausanne

251 : Basic English : Ecclesiastes 1,2; 1 Corinthians 4 1. The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
2. All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.
3. What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?
4. One generation goes and another comes; but the earth is for ever.
5. The sun comes up and the sun goes down, and goes quickly back to the place where he came up.
; AB church Lausanne