⁹ So I said, “The thing which you are doing is not good; should you not walk in the fear of our God because of ^(A)the taunting of the nations, our enemies? ¹⁰ And likewise I, my brothers, and my servants are lending them money and grain. Please, let’s ^[a]do without this interest. ¹¹ Please, give back to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, as well as the hundredth part of the money and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil that you are charging as interest from them.” ¹² Then they said, “We ^(B)will give it back and ^(C)will require nothing from them; we will do exactly as you say.” So I called the priests and made them ^(D)take an oath to act in accordance with this ^[b]promise.

¹¹ I am no longer going to be in the world; and yet ^(A)they themselves are in the world, and ^(B)I am coming to You. ^(C)Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name ^(D)which You have given Me, so that ^(E)they may be one just as We are.

¹⁹ So then you are no longer ^(A)strangers and foreigners, but you are ^(B)fellow citizens with the ^[a]saints, and are of ^(C)God’s household, ²⁰ having been ^(D)built on ^(E)the foundation of ^(F)the apostles and prophets, ^(G)Christ Jesus Himself being the ^(H)cornerstone, ^21 (I)in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into ^(J)a holy ^[b]temple in the Lord, ²² in whom you also are being ^(K)built together into a ^(L)dwelling of God in the Spirit.

⁶ and they have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to ^[a](A)send them on their way in a manner ^(B)worthy of God.