https://getbiblering.com/guides Plain answers for reading the whole Bible, from the maker of BibleRing. en-US Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://getbiblering.com/guides/read-the-bible-in-a-year https://getbiblering.com/guides/read-the-bible-in-a-year Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Reading the whole Bible To read the 66-book Protestant Bible in a year, read its 1,189 chapters at 3.26 a day, which means three chapters on most days and four on 94 of them. That is about 2,055 words, or 9 to 10 minutes a day at an ordinary silent pace, and the year can start on any day. The 73-book Catholic Bible takes 3.7 chapters a day. Read in order, the heaviest month is February, and Matthew does not arrive until day 286. https://getbiblering.com/guides/read-the-bible-in-a-month https://getbiblering.com/guides/read-the-bible-in-a-month Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Reading the whole Bible Yes. The 66-book Protestant Bible has 1,189 chapters and about 750,000 words, so reading it in 30 days means about 40 chapters a day, roughly 1¾ hours of silent reading at an average pace and over two hours at a relaxed one. Forty days brings it down to about 30 chapters and 80 to 95 minutes a day. Split the days by length rather than by chapter count, or some days run to about 2¾ hours and others under one. https://getbiblering.com/guides/how-long-to-read-the-new-testament https://getbiblering.com/guides/how-long-to-read-the-new-testament Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Reading the whole Bible Read silently at the average adult pace of 238 words a minute, the New Testament takes about 12 hours, and about 14½ at a relaxed 200. It is 27 books and 260 chapters, roughly 175,000 words in a modern translation. Spread out, that is 24 to 29 minutes a day for 30 days, 8 to 10 minutes a day for 90 days, or one chapter every weekday for a year. The four Gospels alone take about 5½ hours. https://getbiblering.com/guides/how-many-chapters-a-day-to-read-the-bible https://getbiblering.com/guides/how-many-chapters-a-day-to-read-the-bible Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Reading the whole Bible To read the 66-book Protestant Bible in a year, read 3.26 chapters a day. That is its 1,189 chapters over 365 days, or three chapters every day and a fourth on 94 of them, about 10 minutes a day. The 73-book Catholic Bible needs 3.65 a day, the Orthodox 3.8 and the Ethiopian 4.3. In the Protestant Bible, six months takes 6.5 chapters a day and 90 days 13.2, and one chapter a day finishes it in 1,189 days, about 3 years 3 months. https://getbiblering.com/guides/read-the-bible-in-6-months https://getbiblering.com/guides/read-the-bible-in-6-months Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Reading the whole Bible To read the Bible in 6 months, read 6 or 7 chapters a day. The 66-book Protestant Bible's 1,189 chapters over 182 days come to 6.5 a day, about 4,100 words, which takes around 17 minutes at an average silent reading pace or 21 at a relaxed one: two sittings of about ten minutes. That is 26 weeks of about 46 chapters each, twice the daily reading of a one-year plan. https://getbiblering.com/guides/read-the-bible-in-90-days https://getbiblering.com/guides/read-the-bible-in-90-days Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Reading the whole Bible Reading the 66-book Protestant Bible in 90 days means 1,189 chapters at about 13 a day, with 14 on 19 of the days. That is roughly 8,300 words a day: 35 minutes of silent reading at the average adult pace and 42 at a relaxed one, so plan on about 45 minutes. In all it comes to about 52 to 62 hours. The 73-book Catholic Bible asks nearly 15 chapters, or 40 to 50 minutes, a day. https://getbiblering.com/guides/read-the-bible-in-two-years https://getbiblering.com/guides/read-the-bible-in-two-years Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Reading the whole Bible To read the 66-book Protestant Bible in two years, read about 1.6 chapters a day: two chapters on most days and one on the rest, roughly five minutes of reading. The 73-book Catholic Bible takes 1.8 a day. Eighteen months is 2.2 chapters a day (about 7 minutes) and three years is 1.1 (3 to 4 minutes). At one chapter a day, the Protestant Bible takes 1,189 days, about 3 years and 3 months. https://getbiblering.com/guides/how-long-does-it-take-to-read-the-bible https://getbiblering.com/guides/how-long-does-it-take-to-read-the-bible Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Bible by the numbers Read silently at the average adult pace of 238 words a minute, the 66-book Protestant Bible takes about 52 hours, roughly 40 for the Old Testament and 12 for the New. At a relaxed 200 words a minute it is about 62 hours, and read aloud about 68. The 73-book Catholic Bible adds around 7 hours. Over a year, that comes to about 10 minutes a day. https://getbiblering.com/guides/how-many-books-in-the-bible https://getbiblering.com/guides/how-many-books-in-the-bible Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Bible by the numbers The Protestant Bible has 66 books, 39 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New. The Catholic Bible has 73, adding Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach and Baruch. Orthodox Bibles have about 76 to 78, depending on the edition and how its books are counted, and the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church counts 81. All of them share the same 27 New Testament books. The Hebrew Bible counts the writings of the Protestant Old Testament as 24 books. https://getbiblering.com/guides/how-many-books-did-paul-write https://getbiblering.com/guides/how-many-books-did-paul-write Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Bible by the numbers Thirteen books of the Bible carry Paul's name, all of them letters. Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus and Philemon are almost half the New Testament's 27 books. Together they run to 87 chapters, about a quarter of its words and three hours of silent reading. Hebrews names no author. It was long counted as Paul's fourteenth letter, but most modern scholars think someone else wrote it. https://getbiblering.com/guides/how-many-chapters-in-the-bible https://getbiblering.com/guides/how-many-chapters-in-the-bible Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Bible by the numbers The Protestant Bible has 1,189 chapters in its 66 books, 929 in the Old Testament and 260 in the New, and the King James Version, the NIV, the ESV and other Protestant translations all share that count. The 73-book Catholic Bible has 1,334 chapters, and Bibles with the Orthodox or Ethiopian books more again, 1,386 and 1,564 by our count. Every extra chapter is in the Old Testament; the New Testament has 260 in all of them. https://getbiblering.com/guides/how-many-words-in-the-bible https://getbiblering.com/guides/how-many-words-in-the-bible Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Bible by the numbers In English, the 66-book Protestant Bible runs to about 730,000 to 790,000 words, depending on the translation. By our count the King James Version has 790,676 words in 31,102 verses, and the modern World English Bible has 750,220. The figure most often quoted for the KJV, 783,137, comes from a count that does not give its method. The Old Testament holds about three-quarters of the words. A 73-book Catholic Bible has about 854,000 in the WEB, and the Hebrew Bible in Hebrew about 307,000. https://getbiblering.com/guides/divisions-of-the-bible https://getbiblering.com/guides/divisions-of-the-bible Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Bible by the numbers The Protestant Bible's 66 books are commonly sorted into eight categories. The Old Testament has the Law (Genesis to Deuteronomy, 5 books), History (Joshua to Esther, 12), Wisdom or Poetry (Job to Song of Songs, 5) and the Prophets (Isaiah to Malachi, 17, split into 5 major and 12 minor). The New Testament has the Gospels (4), Acts (1), the Epistles (21 letters, 13 of them Paul's) and Revelation (1). The Hebrew Bible groups the same Old Testament books in three parts instead, the Torah, Prophets and Writings. https://getbiblering.com/guides/books-of-the-bible-in-order https://getbiblering.com/guides/books-of-the-bible-in-order Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Bible by the numbers The Protestant Bible has 66 books and 1,189 chapters. The Old Testament's 39 run from Genesis to Malachi: five books of Law (Genesis to Deuteronomy), twelve of History (Joshua to Esther), five of Wisdom (Job to Song of Songs) and seventeen of Prophets (Isaiah to Malachi). The New Testament's 27 run from Matthew to Revelation: four Gospels, Acts, Paul's thirteen letters (Romans to Philemon), Hebrews and seven general letters, then Revelation. A Catholic Bible has 73 books, with seven more in the Old Testament. https://getbiblering.com/guides/books-of-the-bible-in-order-written https://getbiblering.com/guides/books-of-the-bible-in-order-written Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Bible by the numbers No one can list the books in the exact order they were written: most name no date, and several grew over generations. On traditional dates the Old Testament runs from Job and the five books of Moses (1400s or 1200s BC) to Malachi and Chronicles (400s BC), and the New Testament from James and Galatians (40s AD) to Revelation (about 95 AD). Critical scholars date much of the Old Testament later, and both views put Paul's first letters, from about 50 AD, before the Gospels. https://getbiblering.com/guides/longest-and-shortest-books-of-the-bible https://getbiblering.com/guides/longest-and-shortest-books-of-the-bible Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Bible by the numbers The shortest book of the Bible is 3 John, with one chapter, 14 verses and 294 words in the King James Version (292 in the World English Bible). 2 John has fewer verses, 13, but four more words. The longest is Psalms, with 150 chapters, 2,461 verses and 43,716 words in the KJV, the most by every English measure, though in the original Hebrew Jeremiah has more words. In the 66-book Protestant Bible, five books are a single chapter long: Obadiah, Philemon, 2 John, 3 John and Jude. https://getbiblering.com/guides/catholic-vs-protestant-bible https://getbiblering.com/guides/catholic-vs-protestant-bible Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Canons and traditions A Catholic Bible has 73 books and a Protestant Bible 66. The New Testament is the same 27 books in both. The difference is in the Old Testament, where Catholic Bibles include Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach and Baruch, and read Esther and Daniel with their Greek additions. Catholics call these books deuterocanonical; Protestants usually call them the Apocrypha and leave them out or print them apart. Together they add 145 chapters, about seven hours of reading. https://getbiblering.com/guides/catholic-bible-reading-plan https://getbiblering.com/guides/catholic-bible-reading-plan Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Canons and traditions To read the 73-book Catholic Bible in a year, read its 1,334 chapters at 3.7 a day: four chapters on most days and three on the rest, about 12 minutes at a relaxed pace. Six months is 7.3 chapters a day (about 24 minutes), 18 months 2.4 (about 8) and two years 1.8 (about 6). Read Tobit, Judith, the Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach and Baruch where a Catholic Bible prints them, and the plan ends at Revelation with nothing left over. https://getbiblering.com/guides/is-the-book-of-enoch-in-the-bible https://getbiblering.com/guides/is-the-book-of-enoch-in-the-bible Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Canons and traditions Not in most Bibles. The Book of Enoch, also called 1 Enoch, is not in the Hebrew Bible or in Protestant, Catholic or Eastern Orthodox Bibles, and it was never part of the 1611 King James Apocrypha. It is scripture for the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo churches and for Beta Israel, the Ethiopian Jewish community, and Ethiopian Bibles include it in 108 chapters. The New Testament's Letter of Jude quotes it directly, in Jude 14–15. https://getbiblering.com/guides/deuterocanonical-books-apocrypha https://getbiblering.com/guides/deuterocanonical-books-apocrypha Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Canons and traditions The deuterocanonical books are seven Old Testament books in Catholic Bibles that most Protestant Bibles leave out: Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach and Baruch, plus longer Greek forms of Esther and Daniel. Protestants call them the Apocrypha. The 1611 King James Bible had 14 under that name: the seven, the four additions as books, 1 and 2 Esdras and the Prayer of Manasseh. Orthodox Bibles add more, such as 3 Maccabees. The Catholic set is 145 chapters, a little over seven hours of reading. https://getbiblering.com/guides/ethiopian-bible-books https://getbiblering.com/guides/ethiopian-bible-books Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Canons and traditions The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church counts 81 books in its Bible, the largest canon in traditional Christianity. It reaches 81 in two ways, as 54 Old Testament books and the usual 27 New Testament ones, or as 46 and 35, with eight further books, mostly on church order, in the New Testament. Its Old Testament includes Enoch, Jubilees, 4 Baruch and three books of Meqabyan, which no other church's Bible has apart from the Eritrean church's. No church or scholarly list we found gives 88. https://getbiblering.com/guides/orthodox-bible-books https://getbiblering.com/guides/orthodox-bible-books Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Canons and traditions An Eastern Orthodox Bible has every book of the 73-book Catholic Bible plus 1 Esdras, 3 Maccabees, the Prayer of Manasseh and Psalm 151, because its Old Testament follows the Septuagint, the ancient Greek translation. Editions then differ. Greek Bibles usually add 4 Maccabees in an appendix, Slavonic and Russian ones add 2 Esdras, and no council binding on every Orthodox church has fixed a single list. Counted as books, that comes to about 76 to 78, with the same 27-book New Testament. https://getbiblering.com/guides/were-books-removed-from-the-bible https://getbiblering.com/guides/were-books-removed-from-the-bible Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Canons and traditions Whether books were removed depends on which Bible you start from. Catholic and Orthodox Bibles have kept their extra Old Testament books all along. The Reformers kept them too, but set them apart as the Apocrypha. The King James Bible of 1611 had 80 books, 14 of them in that section between the testaments. Printers began binding King James Bibles without it in 1666, and after 1826 most editions left it out. The Council of Nicaea, often blamed, left no record of discussing the canon. https://getbiblering.com/guides/where-to-start-reading-the-bible https://getbiblering.com/guides/where-to-start-reading-the-bible Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Getting started Start with one of the four Gospels. Mark is the quickest way into the story of Jesus, 16 chapters and about an hour of reading in all. John, 21 chapters and about 80 minutes, is the one to choose if you want to know what that story means. After your first Gospel, read Acts, then a short letter such as Philippians, then Genesis for the story from the beginning. A chapter or two a day is plenty, and there is no need to start at Genesis 1. https://getbiblering.com/guides/bible-reading-plan-for-beginners https://getbiblering.com/guides/bible-reading-plan-for-beginners Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Getting started A good first plan is one chapter a day for 90 days. Read the Gospel of Mark, then John, Acts, Philippians and James, and finish with Genesis 1 to 16, from creation to Abraham. An average day takes about three minutes of silent reading, and the whole plan about five hours. If you miss a day, read the next chapter rather than two at once. Afterward, the same chapter a day reads the rest of the New Testament in about six months. https://getbiblering.com/guides/how-to-read-the-bible-chronologically https://getbiblering.com/guides/how-to-read-the-bible-chronologically Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Getting started Reading the Bible chronologically means one of two orders. Most chronological plans follow the order of events: they cut books into passages and read Job among the patriarchs, Chronicles beside Kings, psalms inside David's life and Paul's letters inside Acts. The other order keeps every book whole and reads them roughly as they were written, from Job and Genesis to John's writings, with Paul's first letters before the Gospels. Either way it is 1,189 chapters in a Protestant Bible, about 3.3 a day for a year. https://getbiblering.com/guides/reading-the-bible-cover-to-cover https://getbiblering.com/guides/reading-the-bible-cover-to-cover Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Getting started Reading the Bible cover to cover means 1,189 chapters from Genesis to Revelation in the 66-book Protestant Bible, about 52 hours of silent reading, or three to four chapters a day for a year. The Old Testament is 929 of those chapters, so Matthew begins more than three-quarters of the way through. The stretches where readers stall are shorter than they feel. All of Leviticus takes about 97 minutes, and Numbers a little over two hours. The 73-book Catholic Bible has 1,334 chapters. https://getbiblering.com/guides/best-order-to-read-the-bible https://getbiblering.com/guides/best-order-to-read-the-bible Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Getting started No order is required. The Bible is a library, and every route covers the same 1,189 chapters of the Protestant Bible at about 3.3 a day for a year. Read cover to cover to take each book whole, though Matthew then waits until day 286. Read the Old and New Testaments together to have a Gospel from day 1. Read in the order the books were written, or the order events happened, to follow the history. For a first read, many guides start with a Gospel. https://getbiblering.com/guides/which-gospel-to-read-first https://getbiblering.com/guides/which-gospel-to-read-first Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Getting started Start with Mark if you want the story of Jesus at speed. It is the shortest Gospel, 16 chapters and about an hour of reading, and most scholars think it was the first written. Start with John, 21 chapters and about 80 minutes, if you want to know what the story means. Matthew, which links back to the Old Testament, and Luke, the fullest account, are just as good a start. When you finish, read Acts, Luke's sequel, and then a short letter such as Philippians. https://getbiblering.com/guides/behind-on-bible-reading-plan https://getbiblering.com/guides/behind-on-bible-reading-plan Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Keeping at it A week behind on a one-year plan of the 66-book Protestant Bible is about 23 chapters, roughly 75 minutes of reading. There are four ways to catch up without starting over: spread the gap over the next month (about 2½ extra minutes a day), skip to today's reading and read the gap later, carry on from where you stopped and finish a week later, or change to a slower pace such as 18 months or two years. The last two keep every chapter without asking more of any day. https://getbiblering.com/guides/bible-reading-plan-for-couples https://getbiblering.com/guides/bible-reading-plan-for-couples Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Keeping at it A couple can read the Bible together in three ways: one passage read aloud, taking turns; the same plan read at separate times and talked over once a week; or one book at a time, choosing the next together. Short books are the easiest start. Philippians and James each take about 12 minutes read aloud, and Mark is 16 nights at a chapter a night. Read aloud, the whole 66-book Bible in a year comes to about 11 minutes a day. https://getbiblering.com/guides/bible-reading-streak https://getbiblering.com/guides/bible-reading-streak Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Keeping at it A Bible reading streak counts the days in a row you have read, and it does help some people: seeing an unbroken run makes people more likely to keep going. The cost comes when it breaks. Research on logged streaks finds engagement drops after a visible break, more when people blame themselves and less when the streak can be repaired. A forgiving rule, such as one quiet day allowed and earned back by a week of reading, keeps most of the benefit and softens the cliff. https://getbiblering.com/guides/bible-reading-minutes-a-day https://getbiblering.com/guides/bible-reading-minutes-a-day Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Keeping at it No verse sets a daily amount, so the useful question is what your minutes will cover. About 11 minutes a day reads the 66-book Protestant Bible in a year, and 12 the 73-book Catholic Bible. At 10 minutes a day the whole Bible takes 10 to 13 months, depending on how fast you read; at 15 minutes, 7 to 8½ months; at 5 minutes, about two years. Five minutes a day still reads the New Testament in under six months. https://getbiblering.com/guides/how-often-christians-read-the-bible https://getbiblering.com/guides/how-often-christians-read-the-bible Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Keeping at it Between a fifth and two fifths of American adults, and a third to a half of American Christians, read the Bible at least weekly, depending on the survey. In January 2026, 25% of US adults read, listened to or prayed with it on their own at least weekly (American Bible Society). Barna found 42% of adults and 50% of Christians reading weekly in 2025; Pew's 2023–24 study found 33% of Christians reading outside services weekly. Daily reading is rarer: 31% of Protestant churchgoers read every day (Lifeway, 2025). https://getbiblering.com/guides/how-to-read-the-bible-every-day https://getbiblering.com/guides/how-to-read-the-bible-every-day Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Keeping at it To read the Bible every day, choose an amount small enough for a busy day (one chapter takes about three minutes), tie it to something you already do daily, and decide what to read before the day starts. Expect missed days, and after one, read that day's portion rather than doubling up. In a widely cited study of habit formation, missing a single day made no real difference, and new habits took anywhere from 18 to 254 days to become close to automatic. https://getbiblering.com/guides/read-the-bible-with-adhd https://getbiblering.com/guides/read-the-bible-with-adhd Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Keeping at it Reading the Bible with ADHD usually goes better when the reading is small, varied and forgiving. Set the daily amount in minutes rather than chapters, since a chapter can take a few seconds or ten minutes, and start with short, fast-moving books like Mark (about an hour in all) or Jonah (five minutes). Listen while you read, keep a pen in hand, keep a record you can watch fill up, and use a plan where a missed day simply passes instead of piling up. https://getbiblering.com/guides/start-reading-the-bible-again https://getbiblering.com/guides/start-reading-the-bible-again Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Keeping at it Start small, and start where you are. If you remember where you stopped, reread that chapter and carry on; if not, begin a short book you can finish this week, such as Jonah (about 5 minutes), Philippians or James (under 10 each) or Mark (about an hour). Read five to ten minutes a day, tied to something you already do, like breakfast. What you read before still counts, so there is nothing to start over and no missed days to make up. https://getbiblering.com/guides/no-motivation-to-read-the-bible https://getbiblering.com/guides/no-motivation-to-read-the-bible Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Keeping at it Losing motivation to read the Bible is common, and often the cause is the reading, not the reader. The Bible is a library of 66 or more books in eight kinds of writing, a front-to-back year plan reaches the laws of Exodus and Leviticus within a month, and daily targets tend to be set on a good day. What helps: read less (a chapter takes about three minutes), finish a short book first, mix the testaments, read with one question, and track what you've covered, not what you've missed. https://getbiblering.com/guides/printable-bible-reading-tracker https://getbiblering.com/guides/printable-bible-reading-tracker Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Keeping track BibleRing's free printable Bible reading tracker gives every chapter its own numbered box, grouped by book under eight color-coded divisions, as a PDF in US Letter and A4 with no email or sign-up. The Protestant edition fits all 1,189 chapters on one page. The Catholic has 1,334 boxes, With Apocrypha 1,360, Orthodox 1,386 and Ethiopian 1,564. Tick a box for each chapter you read, in any order. About 3.3 boxes a day finishes the Protestant Bible in a year. https://getbiblering.com/guides/bible-bookshelf-tracker https://getbiblering.com/guides/bible-bookshelf-tracker Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Keeping track BibleRing's free Bible bookshelf tracker draws every book of the Bible as a spine on a shelf, taller the more chapters it has, in outline for you to color in when you finish that book. Three shelves follow the Bible's divisions: Law and History, Wisdom and Prophets, then the New Testament. It is one page, as a PDF in US Letter and A4, for the Protestant (66 books), Catholic (73), With Apocrypha (76), Orthodox (78) and Ethiopian (80) Bibles, with no email or sign-up. https://getbiblering.com/guides/bible-reading-plan-generator https://getbiblering.com/guides/bible-reading-plan-generator Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Keeping track A Bible reading plan generator divides your Bible's chapters by the days you have and shares them out in order. Choose a Bible (66 to 80 books), an order and a start date, then a day to finish by, a number of chapters a day or a number of minutes a day. A year of the 66-book Protestant Bible is 1,189 chapters over 365 days, three or four chapters a day, or about 11 minutes. https://getbiblering.com/guides/bible-reading-tracker-app https://getbiblering.com/guides/bible-reading-tracker-app Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Keeping track A Bible reading tracker app keeps a record of the chapters you have read and works out what comes next and how far you are. Eight checks separate a good one: it counts your Bible, from 66 books to 80; it works with any translation, paper included; a missed day leaves no backlog; you can log an earlier day and undo a tap; past reading counts without faking days; widgets and reminders never log or scold; you know where the record lives; and you know what costs money. https://getbiblering.com/guides/how-much-of-the-bible-have-i-read https://getbiblering.com/guides/how-much-of-the-bible-have-i-read Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Keeping track Add up the chapters of every book you have finished and divide by your Bible's total. The 66-book Protestant Bible has 1,189 chapters, so about 12 chapters make one percent; the 73-book Catholic Bible has 1,334. The New Testament alone, 260 chapters, is 21.9% of a Protestant Bible and 19.5% of a Catholic one. For a book read only in part, add just the chapters you read. A larger canon gives a smaller percentage for the same reading. https://getbiblering.com/guides/bible-reading-journal https://getbiblering.com/guides/bible-reading-journal Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Keeping track A Bible reading journal is a record of what struck you as you read. The simplest one that lasts is a line a chapter: the reference, what happens, what caught you, and any question. At a one-year pace that is three or four lines a day, 1,189 lines for the Protestant Bible and 1,334 for the Catholic. Kept by chapter rather than by date, the journal leaves no blank page for a missed day, and a second reading finds what you wrote the first time. https://getbiblering.com/guides/track-your-bible-reading https://getbiblering.com/guides/track-your-bible-reading Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Keeping track Track your Bible reading by chapter: the Protestant Bible has 1,189 and the Catholic Bible 1,334, and reading plans are written in chapters too. A printed chart with a box for every chapter shows what you have covered at a glance. A spreadsheet with a row per chapter and the date you read it adds a percentage and a projected finish date. An app does both and also works out each day's reading. Record what you read, not the days you missed. https://getbiblering.com/guides/which-bible-reading-plan-is-best https://getbiblering.com/guides/which-bible-reading-plan-is-best Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Well-known reading plans The best Bible reading plan is the one whose daily load and shape you can keep. Any plan that reads the Bible once in a year, cover to cover or both testaments together, is about 3.3 chapters, or 9 to 10 minutes, a day. M'Cheyne's 1842 plan is about 4.4 chapters and reads the New Testament and Psalms twice. The Navigators plan reads about 4 chapters on 25 days a month. A 5-day plan is 4.6 on weekdays, and Horner's system is ten chapters, 25 to 30 minutes, every day. https://getbiblering.com/guides/grant-horner-bible-reading-plan https://getbiblering.com/guides/grant-horner-bible-reading-plan Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Well-known reading plans Professor Grant Horner's Bible reading system has you read ten chapters a day, one from each of ten lists that together hold the Protestant Bible's 1,189 chapters. Each list starts over when it ends, and because the lists run from 28 chapters (Acts) to 250 (Isaiah to Malachi), the day's ten keep changing. Every chapter has been read by day 250. An average day is about 6,050 words, or 25 to 30 minutes of silent reading, against the hour a day Horner's sheet suggests. https://getbiblering.com/guides/psalms-and-proverbs-in-a-month https://getbiblering.com/guides/psalms-and-proverbs-in-a-month Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Well-known reading plans To read the Psalms in a month, read five a day: 150 psalms over 30 days. The simplest rule is the date plus 30 (on the 1st, Psalms 1, 31, 61, 91 and 121), but it puts Psalm 119 on the 29th, a 16-minute day when most take 4 to 7. Reading straight through in blocks, as the 1662 Book of Common Prayer does, keeps every day between 4 and 8 minutes. Add the chapter of Proverbs that matches the date, about 2 minutes, and both books come round monthly. https://getbiblering.com/guides/5-day-bible-reading-plan https://getbiblering.com/guides/5-day-bible-reading-plan Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Well-known reading plans A 5-day Bible reading plan gives you five readings a week and two days with nothing assigned, so a year is 52 weeks of five, or 260 readings. Read that way, the 66-book Protestant Bible's 1,189 chapters come to 4.6 chapters a reading day, about 2,900 words or 12 to 15 minutes. A 73-book Catholic Bible takes 5.1 a reading day, and the New Testament alone is exactly one chapter every weekday. https://getbiblering.com/guides/mcheyne-bible-reading-plan https://getbiblering.com/guides/mcheyne-bible-reading-plan Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Well-known reading plans The M'Cheyne Bible reading plan is a one-year calendar that Robert Murray M'Cheyne, minister of St Peter's Church in Dundee, Scotland, drew up for his congregation in December 1842. Each day has four readings, two for the family and two for private reading, beginning on January 1 with Genesis 1, Matthew 1, Ezra 1 and Acts 1. Over the year it reads the Old Testament once and the New Testament and Psalms twice: 1,599 chapters, about 4.4 a day, or 11 to 13 minutes a day. https://getbiblering.com/guides/navigators-bible-reading-plan https://getbiblering.com/guides/navigators-bible-reading-plan Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Well-known reading plans The Navigators Bible Reading Plan, adapted from the Discipleship Journal plan, reads the Protestant Bible (66 books) once in a year from four places each day: the Gospels, Acts to Revelation, Psalms with the other wisdom books, and the rest of the Old Testament. Each month has only 25 readings, which leaves three to six free days to rest or catch up. A reading day averages about four chapters and 2,500 words, 10 to 13 minutes of reading. https://getbiblering.com/guides/bible-reading-plan-calendar https://getbiblering.com/guides/bible-reading-plan-calendar Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Through the year To read the whole Bible in 2027, a year of 365 days that starts on Friday, January 1, read the 66-book Protestant Bible's 1,189 chapters at 3.26 a day. That is three chapters on most days and four on 94 of them, about 9 minutes at an average silent pace, or 11 allowing a relaxed 3.3 minutes a chapter. The 73-book Catholic Bible's 1,334 chapters come to 3.65 a day. A missed day can be skipped, and a plan can start on any date. https://getbiblering.com/guides/advent-bible-reading-plan https://getbiblering.com/guides/advent-bible-reading-plan Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Through the year Advent 2026 begins on Sunday, November 29 and runs to Thursday, December 24, which is 26 days. The classic plan reads the 24 chapters of Luke, one a day from December 1, at about 4 minutes each. Matthew and Luke together are 52 chapters, exactly two a day from November 29. Isaiah fits at three a day, and the whole New Testament at ten a day, about 28 minutes. Families can read the Christmas story in eight short passages from December 17. https://getbiblering.com/guides/bible-reading-challenge-ideas https://getbiblering.com/guides/bible-reading-challenge-ideas Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Through the year Choose a Bible reading challenge by the minutes it asks of a busy day. The five one-chapter books take about 10 minutes together, Mark about an hour in one sitting, and Proverbs in a month 2 minutes a day. Luke in Advent is a chapter a day, and the four Gospels across Lent about two. For the year, the New Testament in 2027 is one chapter each weekday, and the whole Bible is 3.3 chapters, about 9 to 10 minutes, a day. https://getbiblering.com/guides/lent-bible-reading-plan https://getbiblering.com/guides/lent-bible-reading-plan Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Through the year Lent 2027 begins on Ash Wednesday, February 10, and Easter is March 28. Orthodox Great Lent begins on Clean Monday, March 15, and Pascha is May 2. The four Gospels fit the season well: 89 chapters, about two a day over the 40 days with Sundays free, about 8 minutes of reading a day. For more, the New Testament is 6.5 chapters a day; for less, the Psalms take about 4 minutes a day.