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Bible Reading Checklist & Reading Plans

All 66 books and 1,189 chapters of the Bible. Check them off as you read, or print a copy to keep in your Bible.

Coming Soon · A Free App

Readthrough:
The Checklist, as an App

Readthrough is a free app from Covenant Church for keeping track of your Bible reading, however you read: a well-worn Bible at home, an app on your phone, or an audio Bible in the car. It doesn't put the Bible on a screen. It keeps your place, so you can keep reading.

  • Check off each chapter as you finish it, and see how far you've come.
  • Follow a reading plan, such as M'Cheyne's, and see just today's chapters, with a gentle morning and evening reminder if you'd like one.
  • Watch each book of the Bible fill in, from Genesis to Revelation.
  • Your reading syncs across your devices through your own iCloud and stays private. The church never sees it.

Coming soon for iPhone, Apple Watch, and Mac.

We'll announce it here and in our email the day it's ready. Get the email →

Readthrough's welcome screen: track your Bible reading, however you read.
Welcome
The Bible checklist, with Genesis 1 through 3 checked off and a daily pace to finish by year's end.
The checklist
Day 1 of the M'Cheyne plan: Genesis 1, Matthew 1, Ezra 1 and Acts 1, two of them checked.
Today's plan
Every book of the Old Testament as a grid, showing chapters read in each.
Every book

“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.” (2 Timothy 3:16, ESV)

My encouragement to you is to resolve to be always meditating upon — and then practicing — God's Word. Weekly or daily, pick out some passage of Scripture to chew over in your mind. Turn it over and over, looking at it with your heart, considering it from every angle until you know it through and through.

And then put it into practice — whether that means believing something, doing something, or changing something to God's glory, that we might be better used by Him as we are on mission by prayer, worship, and love for our city. Below you'll find a Bible Reading Checklist to track your progress through every book and chapter, and several time-tested plans to guide your reading. It's not necessary (or even recommended!) to read straight through from Genesis to Revelation — it's usually best to mix book, genre, and chapter, and let the Scriptures complement and build upon one another.

Start Here

The Bible Reading Checklist

Every book and chapter of the Bible, Genesis to Revelation. Tap a chapter when you've read it. Your checks are saved on this device.

0 of 1,189 chapters read

Bible Reading Checklist · covenantburbank.com/read-the-bible

Old Testament 39 books · 929 chapters

Genesis 0/50
Exodus 0/40
Leviticus 0/27
Numbers 0/36
Deuteronomy 0/34
Joshua 0/24
Judges 0/21
Ruth 0/4
1 Samuel 0/31
2 Samuel 0/24
1 Kings 0/22
2 Kings 0/25
1 Chronicles 0/29
2 Chronicles 0/36
Ezra 0/10
Nehemiah 0/13
Esther 0/10
Job 0/42
Psalms 0/150
Proverbs 0/31
Ecclesiastes 0/12
Song of Solomon 0/8
Isaiah 0/66
Jeremiah 0/52
Lamentations 0/5
Ezekiel 0/48
Daniel 0/12
Hosea 0/14
Joel 0/3
Amos 0/9
Obadiah 0/1
Jonah 0/4
Micah 0/7
Nahum 0/3
Habakkuk 0/3
Zephaniah 0/3
Haggai 0/2
Zechariah 0/14
Malachi 0/4

New Testament 27 books · 260 chapters

Matthew 0/28
Mark 0/16
Luke 0/24
John 0/21
Acts 0/28
Romans 0/16
1 Corinthians 0/16
2 Corinthians 0/13
Galatians 0/6
Ephesians 0/6
Philippians 0/4
Colossians 0/4
1 Thessalonians 0/5
2 Thessalonians 0/3
1 Timothy 0/6
2 Timothy 0/4
Titus 0/3
Philemon 0/1
Hebrews 0/13
James 0/5
1 Peter 0/5
2 Peter 0/3
1 John 0/5
2 John 0/1
3 John 0/1
Jude 0/1
Revelation 0/22
Checklist as a Google Doc Make your own copy to keep in Google Docs Open in Docs →

Prefer paper? Free travel-size copies are available at church each Sunday at 10 AM & 6 PM, or let us know and we'll send you one.

Pick a Plan

Recommended Reading Plans

M'Cheyne

The classic, by Robert Murray M'Cheyne. Four chapters a day — the Old Testament once, the New Testament and Psalms twice through in a year.

Download PDF →

Five-Day

The whole Bible on a weekday schedule, leaving the weekends open to catch up if a day gets away from you.

Download PDF →

Chronological

Read the Bible in roughly the order events happened. Pairs beautifully with the I Asked My Dad podcast below (Season 1).

Download PDF →

Psalms–Ezekiel

A gentle on-ramp for first-timers — you'll read the Psalms and Ezekiel alongside the Old Testament before turning to the New.

Download PDF →

Grant Horner's Ten Lists

Ten chapters a day across ten lists — total immersion in Scripture. This is the plan Pastor Brooks is working through this year.

Download PDF →

Listen Along

I Asked My Dad — a weekly podcast of Bible commentary from Emily Woodard and her father, Dr. Mark Ross (one of Pastor Brooks's seminary professors). Seasons 1 & 3 walk through the text to help you as you read. Highly recommended. Listen on Apple Podcasts →

The ESV Bible app — free, with two excellent audio voices; this is the translation we read at Covenant. iPhone → Android →

That said, we'd gently encourage you to keep things analog where you can. The fewer phones and screens involved, the less risk of distraction in time meant for lifting heart and mind to the things of God.

Looking for more to read alongside Scripture? The Letters of Samuel Rutherford — a beloved Reformed devotional classic — are free to read.

As You Read

Whichever plan you choose — stick with it.

Perseverance is the key. Keep a notebook close at hand to write down questions as they come — then bring them to Evening Worship for “Questions to the Minister and Answers.” We'll be praying for you as you read.
— Pastor Brooks

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Psalm 119:105 · ESV