Book of Common Prayer
Children, parents, slaves and masters
6 Children, obey your parents in the Lord. This is right and proper. 2 “Honor your father and your mother”—this is the first commandment that comes with a promise attached!— 3 “so that things may go well with you and that you may live a long life on earth.”
4 Fathers, don’t make your children angry. Bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
5 Slaves, obey your human masters, with respect and devotion, with the same single-mindedness that you have towards the Messiah. 6 You must get on with your work, not only when someone is watching you, as if you were just trying to please another human being, but as slaves of the Messiah. Do God’s will from your heart. 7 Get on with your tasks with a kind and ready spirit as if you were serving the master himself and not human beings. 8 After all, you know that if anyone, slave or free, does something good, they will receive it back from the master.
9 Masters, do the same to them! Give up using threats. You know, after all, that the master in heaven is their master and yours, and he is no respecter of persons.
Jesus calms the storm
35 That day, when it was evening, Jesus said to them, “Let’s go over to the other side.”
36 They left the crowd, and took him with them in the boat he’d been in. There were other boats with him too.
37 A big windstorm blew up. The waves beat on the boat, and it quickly began to fill. 38 Jesus, however, was asleep on a cushion in the stern. They woke him up.
“Teacher!” they said to him, “We’re going down! Don’t you care?”
39 He got up, scolded the wind, and said to the sea, “Silence! Shut up!”
The wind died, and there was a flat calm. 40 Then he said to them, “Why are you scared? Don’t you believe yet?”
41 Great fear stole over them. “Who is this?” they said to each other. “Even the wind and the sea do what he says!”
Scripture quotations from The New Testament for Everyone are copyright © Nicholas Thomas Wright 2011, 2018, 2019.