CSB One Minute Bible: Scripture Portions for Daily Devotion

By CSB Bibles by Holman

The CSB One Minute Bible takes the uncertainty out of daily Bible reading by carefully arranging key biblical texts into 366 daily one-minute readings that will inspire, encourage, and challenge you in your daily walk with the Lord.
 
You will discover new insights through these simple, yet profound, readings from Genesis through Revelation. Each portion of Scripture has been carefully selected to keep the meaning and context of the message clear and concise.
 
The CSB One Minute Bible features the highly readable, highly reliable text of the Christian Standard Bible® (CSB). The CSB stays as literal as possible to the Bible's original meaning without sacrificing clarity, making it easier to engage with Scripture's life-transforming message and to share it with others.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BH Publishing Group
• Release date: Mar 15, 2020
• ISBN: 9781462779550

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CSB One Minute Bible

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DEVOTIONAL LITERATURE BIBLE—STUDY

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Introduction to The One Minute Bible™

Often the Bible is simply called the Book. This description conveys the enormous influence it has wielded first on Western civilization and now on the whole world. Law, literature, architecture, painting, music, morals, and religion all have been shaped by the Bible. It continues to be the world’s best-selling book with sales exceeding one hundred million annually. The Bible has been translated into more than 1,000 languages and dialects.

While the Bible is called the Book, it is actually a library of 66 books written over a period of 1,600 years by more than 40 authors as diverse as one could imagine. Yet from these very different times, places, cultures, and literary forms emerges a coherent theme of God’s creation of the universe.

In the last letter Paul wrote, he reminded his young colleague Timothy that all Scripture is inspired by God. God superintended that both the writing and the preservation of these writings have God as their author, salvation as their end, and inerrant truth for their content.

Because the Bible is God’s word, it has evoked the same hostility as God’s prophets and God’s Son, Jesus Christ. The Roman Emperor Diocletian attempted to destroy the Scriptures. In AD 303 he issued an edict that both church buildings and the Scriptures be burned.

Many manuscripts of the New Testament were lost during this perse- cution. But only 25 years after Diocletian’s attack on the Bible, the new Emperor Constantine ordered 50 copies of the Scriptures to be produced at the expense of the Roman government.

Reading the Bible

We praise the Bible but often stop short of reading it. Perhaps our first attempts at reading it were far from satisfying. We are like someone who is inspired to take up golf after watching a professional sink a 30-foot putt. The novice golfer soon realizes there is a price to be paid to play golf with the skill of the men and women on the PGA tour. One must begin working on one-foot putts and then build on that.

The Bible is a difficult book for several reasons. In terms of sheer number of pages, it is a huge book. The Bible takes as many pages as four large novels. As we have already noted, the Bible was written in different times, places, cultures, and genres by writers of widely dif- ferent personalities. We begin reading a passage, and soon feel like the Ethiopian official whom Philip addressed in Acts 8:30-31: Do you understand what you’re reading?

How can I, he said, unless someone guides me?

The One Minute Bible gives guidance by providing a portion of Scripture that can be read in one minute. Now that’s doable. A one-minute reading is given for each day of the year. These Scripture portions have been carefully chosen to provide the reader with

Selections relating to every principal event in the Bible

Readings on every primary Bible topic and theme

Verses that deal with every major Christian doctrine

All of the most-beloved passages of Scripture.

Taking just one minute a day, you can survey the heart of the Bible in one year. Each day of the year, from January 1 through December 31, is indicated at the top of each page. Using this daily approach, if you should miss a week, it will take you only seven minutes to get back on track. If you miss half a month, you can catch up in 15 minutes.

Although this calendar can guide you through a one-year reading plan, don’t limit yourself to starting in January or reading one page a day. The related texts at the bottom of each page allow you to go deeper into a topic by directing you to nearly 1,800 passages of Scripture that will further your understanding of the topics covered in that day’s reading. Many of these texts are in The One Minute Bible, and you can find them by means of the Scripture Index found on pages 397-403. However, we recommend that you look up these verses in a full-text Bible so that you can read even more of the context surrounding the focal passage.

Topical Headings and Organization

The One Minute Bible begins with the first verse of Genesis and ends with the last verse of Revelation. Readings follow the general flow of biblical history, interlaced with several topical series such as two weeks for Easter in April and a week for mothers in May. (A two-page Table of Contents precedes this introduction.) Some readings reproduce an entire passage of Scripture, such as Psalm 2 on December 22. Often, several passages are combined to show the whole spectrum of biblical teaching on a given topic.

For example, on January 1, Genesis 1:1-2 introduces you to the Bible itself and to creation in particular. John 1:1-5 introduces you to Jesus —the Word—through whom all things were created. Psalm 148:1-6 invites you to praise the Lord as the Creator. January 2 continues the creation account with five texts enlarging on the theme of light.

Blocks of text from different Bible passages are separated by a full space; Scripture references are listed at the end of each reading. The text follows the wording, paragraphing, and poetic formatting of the Christian Standard Bible®.

The 700 selected scriptures and 1,800 related texts were chosen to represent the key themes of the Bible from each of its 66 books. Great care was taken to ensure that each text has the same meaning in The One Minute Bible that it has in its larger context in the Holy Bible.

Each month is introduced by a selection of quotations on the importance of the Bible—33 quotations from international leaders in politics and religion, key figures in the arts, sciences, and humanities.

Indexes

The One Minute Bible guides you through an overview of the Bible in daily one-minute readings. Immediately following the last reading are two different indices. More than 450 key topics and personalities are indexed in the Topical Index found on pages 405-410. With this index you can find every reference to comfort, salvation, or the names of God found in The One Minute Bible. If you want to study any word more thoroughly, we recommend the Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary. The Scripture Index, mentioned above, locates every text printed in The One Minute Bible.

Lastly, four key maps provide an overview of the geography of biblical times (see pp. 411-14). For more information on the geographical setting of the Bible, we recommend the Holman Bible Atlas or the Illustrated Guide to Biblical Geography.

Introduction to the Christian Standard Bible®

The Bible is God’s revelation to humanity. It is our only source for completely reliable information about God, what happens when we die, and where history is headed. The Bible does these things because it is God’s inspired Word, inerrant in the original manuscripts. Bible translation brings God’s Word from the ancient languages (Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic) into today’s world. In dependence on God’s Spirit to accomplish this sacred task, the CSB Translation Oversight Committee and Holman Bible Publishers present the Christian Standard Bible.

Textual Base of the CSB

The textual base for the New Testament (NT) is the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece, 28th edition, and the United Bible Societies’ Greek New Testament, 5th corrected edition. The text for the Old Testament (OT) is the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, 4th edition.

Goals of This Translation

• Provide English-speaking people worldwide with an accurate translation in contemporary English.

• Provide an accurate translation for personal study, sermon prepa- ration, private devotions, and memorization.

• Provide a text that is clear and understandable, suitable for public reading, and shareable so that all may access its life-giving message.

• Affirm the authority of Scripture and champion its absolute truth against skeptical viewpoints.

Translation Philosophy of the Christian Standard Bible

Most discussions of Bible translations speak of two opposite approaches: formal equivalence and dynamic equivalence. However, Bible translations cannot be neatly sorted into these categories. Optimal equivalence capitalizes on the strengths of both approaches.

Optimal equivalence balances contemporary English readability with linguistic precision to the original languages. In the many places throughout the Bible where a word-for-word rendering is understandable, a literal translation is used. When a word-for-word rendering might obscure the meaning for a modern audience, a more dynamic translation is used. This process assures that both the words and the thoughts contained in the original text are conveyed accurately for today’s readers. The Christian Standard Bible places equal value on fidelity to the original and readability for a modern audience, resulting in a translation that achieves both goals.

History of the CSB

Holman Bible Publishers assembled an interdenominational team of one hundred scholars, editors, stylists, and proofreaders, all of whom were committed to biblical inerrancy. Working from the original languages, the translation team edited and polished the manuscript, which was first published as the Holman Christian Standard Bible in 2004.

A standing committee maintained the translation, while also seeking ways to improve both readability and accuracy. As with the original translation, the committee that prepared this revision, renamed the Christian Standard Bible, is international and interdenominational, comprising evangelical scholars who honor the inspiration and authority of God’s written Word.

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"Blessed Lord, who hast caused all Holy Scriptures to be written for our learning;

Grant that we may … hear them, read, mark, learn and inwardly digest them."

book of a common prayer

JANUARY 1

CREATION: In the Beginning

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. All things were created through him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. That light shines in the darkness, and yet the darkness did not overcome it.

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from the heavens;

praise him in the heights.

Praise him, all his angels;

praise him, all his heavenly armies.

Praise him, sun and moon;

praise him, all you shining stars.

Praise him, highest heavens,

and you waters above the heavens.

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for he commanded, and they were created.

He set them in position forever and ever;

he gave an order that will never pass away.

references:

GENESIS 1:1-2; JOHN 1:1-5; PSALM 148:1-6

Related texts:

PSALMS 102:25-28; 139:13-18; PROVERBS 8; ISAIAH 40:12-31; 45:18-25; HEBREWS 11:1-3

JANUARY 2

CREATION: Let There Be Light

Then God said, Let there be light, and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light day, and the darkness he called night. There was an evening, and there was a morning: one day.

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, you are my lamp;

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illuminates my darkness.

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is my light and my salvation —

whom should I fear?

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is the stronghold of my life —

whom should I dread?

Jesus spoke to them again: I am the light of the world. Anyone who follows me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light of life.

. . . and there will no longer be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will worship him. They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. Night will be no more; people will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, because the Lord God will give them light, and they will reign forever and ever.

references:

GENESIS 1:3-5; 2 SAMUEL 22:29; PSALM 27:1; JOHN 8:12; REVELATION 22:3-5

Related texts:

LEVITICUS 24:1-4; JOB 24:13-17; 38:8-20; JOHN 3:19-21; 1 JOHN 1:5-8

JANUARY 3

CREATION: The Sky Above

Then God said, Let there be an expanse between the waters, separating water from water. So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above the expanse. And it was so. God called the expanse sky. Evening came and then morning: the second day.

The heavens declare the glory of God,

and the expanse proclaims the work of his hands.

Day after day they pour out speech;

night after night they communicate knowledge.

There is no speech; there are no words;

their voice is not heard.

I will praise you, Lord, among the peoples;

I will sing praises to you among the nations.

For your faithful love is as high as the heavens;

your faithfulness reaches the clouds.

God, be exalted above the heavens;

let your glory be over the whole earth.

He made the earth by his power,

established the world by his wisdom,

and spread out the heavens by his understanding.

When he thunders,

the waters in the heavens are in turmoil,

and he causes the clouds to rise

from the ends of the earth.

He makes lightning for the rain

and brings the wind from his storehouses.

references:

GENESIS 1:6-8; PSALMS 19:1-3; 57:9-11; JEREMIAH 10:12-13

Related texts:

1 CHRONICLES 16:23-31; JOB 38:22-38; PSALM 102:25-28; ACTS 1:1-12

JANUARY 4

CREATION: Land and Seas, Plants and Trees

Then God said, Let the water under the sky be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so. God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the water he called seas. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, Let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And it was so. The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. Evening came and then morning: the third day.

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’s declaration.

Do you not tremble before me,

the one who set the sand as the boundary of the sea,

an enduring barrier that it cannot cross?

The waves surge, but they cannot prevail.

They roar but cannot pass over it.

He causes grass to grow for the livestock

and provides crops for man to cultivate,

producing food from the earth,

wine that makes human hearts glad —

making his face shine with oil —

and bread that sustains human hearts.

references:

GENESIS 1:9-13; JEREMIAH 5:22; PSALM 104:14-15

Related texts:

JOB 12:7-12; 38:8-11; PSALM 104; REVELATION 20:11—21:4; 22:1-3

JANUARY 5

CREATION: Sun, Moon, and Stars

Then God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night. They will serve as signs for seasons and for days and years. They will be lights in the expanse of the sky to provide light on the earth. And it was so. God made the two great lights — the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night — as well as the stars. God placed them in the expanse of the sky to provide light on the earth, to rule the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. Evening came and then morning: the fourth day.

I did not see a temple in it, because the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates it, and its lamp is the Lamb. The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. Its gates will never close by day because it will never be night there. They will bring the glory and honor of the nations into it. Nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those written in the Lamb’s book of life.

references:

GENESIS 1:14-19; REVELATION 21:22-27

Related texts:

NEHEMIAH 9:5-6; JOB 9:1-9; PSALMS 19:1-6; 104:19-23; PROVERBS 4:18-19; EPHESIANS 5:8-16

JANUARY 6

CREATION: All Creatures Great and Small

Then God said, Let the water swarm with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky. So God created the large sea-creatures and every living creature that moves and swarms in the water, according to their kinds. He also created every winged creature according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them: Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters of the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth. Evening came and then morning: the fifth day.

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In wisdom you have made them all;

the earth is full of your creatures.

Here is the sea, vast and wide,

teeming with creatures beyond number —

living things both large and small.

There the ships move about,

and Leviathan, which you formed to play there.

All of them wait for you

to give them their food at the right time.

When you give it to them,

they gather it;

when you open your hand,

they are satisfied with good things.

references:

GENESIS 1:20-23; PSALM 104:24-28

Related texts:

PSALMS 104:11-18; 148:7-12; MATTHEW 6:25-33; 10:29-31; REVELATION 5:11-13

JANUARY 7

CREATION: The Cattle on a Thousand Hills

Then God said, Let the earth produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that crawl, and the wildlife of the earth according to their kinds. And it was so. So God made the wildlife of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that crawl on the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices

or for your burnt offerings,

which are continually before me.

I will not take a bull from your household

or male goats from your pens,

for every animal of the forest is mine,

the cattle on a thousand hills.

I know every bird of the mountains,

and the creatures of the field are mine.

If I were hungry, I would not tell you,

for the world and everything in it is mine.

Do I eat the flesh of bulls

or drink the blood of goats?

Sacrifice a thank offering to God,

and pay your vows to the Most High.

Call on me in a day of trouble;

I will rescue you, and you will honor me."

references:

GENESIS 1:24-25; PSALM 50:8-15

Related texts:

GENESIS 9:1-3; PSALM 8; PROVERBS 12:10; ISAIAH 11:1-10; 65:17-25

JANUARY 8

CREATION: Mankind—The Image of God

Then God said, Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, the whole earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth.

So God created man in his own image;

he created him in the image of God;

he created them male and female.

God blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth. God also said, Look, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the surface of the entire earth and every tree whose fruit contains seed. This will be food for you, for all the wildlife of the earth, for every bird of the sky, and for every creature that crawls on the earth — everything having the breath of life in it — I have given every green plant for food. And it was so. God saw all that he had made, and it was very good indeed. Evening came and then morning: the sixth day.

references:

GENESIS 1:26-31

Related texts:

GENESIS 2:4-25; 9:6-7; PSALM 8; 1 CORINTHIANS 6:1-4; 2 CORINTHIANS 4:4-6; COLOSSIANS 1:9-20; 3:5-10

JANUARY 9

CREATION: God Rests

So the heavens and the earth and everything in them were completed. On the seventh day God had completed his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, for on it he rested from all his work of creation.

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy:

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made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and everything in them in six days; then he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the L

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blessed the Sabbath day and declared it holy.

On the Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and his disciples began to make their way, picking some heads of grain. The Pharisees said to him, Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?

He said to them, Have you never read what David and those who were with him did when he was in need and hungry — how he entered the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest and ate the bread of the Presence — which is not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests — and also gave some to his companions? Then he told them, The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath. So then, the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.

references:

GENESIS 2:1-3; EXODUS 20:8,11; MARK 2:23-28

Related texts:

EXODUS 16:11-30; PSALM 62:1-5; MATTHEW 11:25-30; MARK 6:30-32; HEBREWS 4:1-4

JANUARY 10

ADAM AND EVE: The First Man and Woman

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God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

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God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it. And the L

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God commanded the man, You are free to eat from any tree of the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die. Then the L

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God said, It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper corresponding to him.

. . . but for the man no helper was found corresponding to him. So the L

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God caused a deep sleep to come over the man, and he slept. God took one of his ribs and closed the flesh at that place. Then the L

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God made the rib he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man. And the man said:

This one, at last, is bone of my bone

and flesh of my flesh;

this one will be called woman,

for she was taken from man.

This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh. Both the man and his wife were naked, yet felt no shame.

references:

GENESIS 2:7,15-18,20b-25

Related texts:

GENESIS 1:26-29; MATTHEW 19:1-12; MARK 10:1-12; 1 CORINTHIANS 6:15—7:40

JANUARY 11

Rulers of God’s Creation

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, our Lord,

how magnificent is your name throughout the earth!

You have covered the heavens with your majesty.

From the mouths of infants and nursing babies,

you have established a stronghold

on account of your adversaries

in order to silence the enemy and the avenger.

When I observe your heavens,

the work of your fingers,

the moon and the stars,

which you set in place,

what is a human being that you remember him,

a son of man that you look after him?

You made him little less than God

and crowned him with glory and honor.

You made him ruler over the works of your hands;

you put everything under his feet:

all the sheep and oxen,

as well as the animals in the wild,

the birds of the sky,

and the fish of the sea

that pass through the currents of the seas.

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, our Lord,

how magnificent is your name throughout the earth!

references:

PSALM 8

Related texts:

GENESIS 1–2; MATTHEW 21:16; HEBREWS 2:5-9

JANUARY 12

The Fall of Mankind

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God had made. He said to the woman, Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?

The woman said to the serpent, We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden. But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’

No! You will not die, the serpent said to the woman. In fact, God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. The woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

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God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and they hid from the L

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God among the trees of the garden.

references:

GENESIS 3:1-8

Related texts:

EZEKIEL 28:13-19; ROMANS 5:12-19; 1 TIMOTHY 2:11-15; JAMES 1:12-15

JANUARY 13

God Judges the First Sin

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God called out to the man and said to him, Where are you?

And he said, I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.

Then he asked, Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?

The man replied, The woman you gave to be with me — she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate.

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God asked the woman, What is this you have done?

And the woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.

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God said to the serpent:

Because you have done this,

you are cursed more than any livestock

and more than any wild animal.

You will move on your belly

and eat dust all the days of your life.

I will put hostility between you and the woman,

and between your offspring and her offspring.

He will strike your head,

and you will strike his heel.

He said to the woman:

I will intensify your labor pains;

you will bear children with painful effort.

Your desire will be for your husband,

yet he will rule over you.

references:

GENESIS 3:9-16

Related texts:

DEUTERONOMY 32:1-6; ROMANS 3:9-18; REVELATION 12:9;