My Bible reading velocity has increased since I started keeping track of my reading on February 9, 2006. I initially kept track on this blog, but switched to a private Google Docs spreadsheet after July 2, 2019. I did a search on this and it looks like the only time I wrote another post like this was in 2019. I have read through the King James Version (KJV), New King James Version (NKJV), English Standard Version (ESV), New American Standard Bible (NASB), and New International Version (NIV) Bibles. Lorena and I are currently reading aloud through the Reina-Valera, 1909 (RV) Spanish Version of the New Testament over the Internet with Grandma Conchita in Mexico. I am currently, in a read through the New Living Translation (NLT) version of the New Testament and hope to do a full read through that version when I finish.

When I first started, it was a pretty big effort just to get through a chapter per day. It took me 1,363 days to read through the Bible in my first pass. The last time, I read all the way through the Bible starting in late December of 2022, it took me 120 days. I really feel like I have missed something if I miss a day of reading. I am pretty sure I could count the days I missed on one hand since when I started reading 17 years ago. I am pretty sure I would benefit greatly by slowing down and reading more carefully, but I want to do that as an additional reading as opposed to replacing what I am doing now.

So far, I have been through the whole Bible ten times. I am on my 38th pass through the New Testament if you include the times I read through the whole Bible. This whole effort, if you want to call it that, has been an incredible gift to me.