When you read the bible, you do not just read you try to meditate and understand with the help of the spirit of God.
I advise you to read the bible, first, in the new testament, because we are under now the new covenant or the new testament. Read the bible starting from the books of the new testament, then por favour, please go back to Genesis and read all the bible. The reason why I advice to read the new testament is because, you see it will take some time, maybe a year, for you to finish and digest the new testament, because when you read the bible, you do not just read, you read and meditate and understand you do not read as fast as you can. I am a fast reader, I have read the new testament in only one week. When I began reading the bible, I read it very, very fast because I'm a fast reader. But when I begin to read it again in meditation I was illuminated by the word of God in the bible. You have to digest the things you read in the bible. Do not just read ask the help for the help of God through his holy spirit. Read Matthew up to the book of revelation but after reading it, or reading the new testament, you begin reading again Genesis up to the book of malachi. Why? Because by that time you have read the new testament, you will discover that most of the pronouncements in the new testament were written in the old testament or the books of the old testament. You will be refreshed after reading the new testament then read the old testament you will be refreshed, you will discover truths. When the apostle paul got what he said in the book among the Romans when he said it is written
The lord jesus christ said it is written meaning when Matthew said "it is written"it is not his writing that he implies or he mentions. He is talking about something written before him, and you will discover that Matthew is referring to the book of isaiah, to the prophet malachi etc.you will be refreshed and you will discover the basis for new testament writers when they said,"it is written", "it is written" because you are going to verses in the books of the old testament that were used by the writers of the new testament to write as the basis of their teaching. That's why,I found it interesting and more profitable when you read first the new testament.