Bible Reading Plan Generator — Printable Plans by Date and Pace

Bible reading plan generator: your plan, your pace

This free Bible reading plan generator builds a day-by-day schedule of chapters from any start date. Read the whole Bible in a year, the New Testament in three months, the Psalms and Proverbs, the four Gospels, a chronological plan, or just the books you pick — and choose either how many days you want or how many chapters a day you can manage.

Every day of the plan is listed with its date and readings. Tick each day as you go: the progress bar, today’s reading and how many days you are behind update at once, and the ticks are remembered in your browser. When the plan looks right, download a Bible reading plan PDF with tick boxes, print it, or save it as CSV for a spreadsheet or calendar.

How to use the Bible Reading Plan Generator

1. Choose a Plan — for example Whole Bible, Old and New Testament each day or Chronological — and the Canon (66 books, or 73 for the Catholic Bible).
2. Set the Start date; it defaults to the coming 1 January, or press Today.
3. Pick the Pace: a number of reading days (1 year, 6 months, 90 days, 2 years or your own number) or a number of chapters a day.
4. Untick any weekdays you don’t want to read on — the plan stretches to fit.
5. Tick days as you read them, then press Download PDF, Print or Download CSV.

Bible Reading Plan Generator features

How the plan is worked out

The Protestant Bible has 66 books and 1,189 chapters: 929 in the Old Testament and 260 in the New. Reading the whole Bible in 365 days therefore means about 3.3 chapters a day; the New Testament alone in 90 days is just under three a day. The generator spreads chapters as evenly as possible: day k of D reads from chapter ⌊k·C/D⌋ to just before ⌊(k+1)·C/D⌋ of each reading stream, so the counts never differ by more than one. When a plan has more days than chapters, some days become catch-up days.

Chapters are not all the same length — Psalm 117 has two verses and Psalm 119 has 176 — so some days take longer than others. Plans that mix the Old and New Testament (or add a psalm or proverb each day) give variety and keep you reading the Gospels early in the year.

About the chronological plan and translations

The chronological plan puts whole books in the order of the events they describe, as traditionally understood: Job after Genesis, the Psalms and Wisdom books with David and Solomon, the prophets with the kings of their time, and Paul’s letters among Acts by approximate date of writing. It is an approximation — it does not split books into passages, and scholars date many books differently.

The plans contain only book and chapter references, so they work with any translation (NIV, ESV, KJV, NRSV, NABRE…). A few books are numbered differently in some Bibles — Malachi has three chapters in Hebrew Bibles and Joel four — so check the last day of those books. For seasons, the Easter date calculator helps plan Lent readings, the habit tracker printable pairs well with a daily plan, and the Hebrew date converter gives Jewish festival dates.