Book of Common Prayer

I Am Giving You This Instruction, My Child, So You Can Fight The Good Fight

¹⁸ I am depositing^[a] this instruction^[b] with you, my child Timothy, in accordance with the preceding^[c] prophecies about you, in order that by them^[d] you may fight the good fight, ¹⁹ having faith and a good conscience, which^[e] having pushed-aside^[f], some suffered-shipwreck with respect to the^[g] faith— ²⁰ of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I handed-over to Satan in order that they may be trained not to blaspheme.

First, I Urge That Prayers And Thanksgivings Be Made For All People

2 First of all then, I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings be made for all people, ² for kings and all the ones being in a place of superiority, in order that we may spend^[h] a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. ³ This^[i] is good and acceptable^[j] in the sight of our Savior God, ⁴ Who desires^[k] all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

For Jesus Gave Himself As a Ransom For All

⁵ For there is one God, and one mediator of God and people— the man Christ Jesus, ⁶ the One having given Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given in His^[l] own times ⁷ for which I was appointed a proclaimer and an apostle (I am telling the truth; I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in^[m] faith and truth. ⁸ So I want the men in every place to be praying, lifting-up holy hands without anger and argument.

Jesus Heals a Woman On The Sabbath. The Synagogue Official Objects

¹⁰ Now He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath, ¹¹ and behold— there was a woman having a spirit of ^[a] infirmity eighteen years. And she was bending-over, and not being able to bend-up completely. ¹² And having seen her, Jesus called to her and said to her, “Woman, you have been released from your infirmity”. ¹³ And He laid His hands on her. And at-once she was made-straight. And she was glorifying God. ¹⁴ But having responded, the synagogue official— being indignant because Jesus cured on the Sabbath— was saying to the crowd that “There are six days on which one ought-to work. So be cured while coming on them, and not on the day of the Sabbath”. ¹⁵ But the Lord responded to him and said, “Hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath release his ox or donkey from the manger^[b], and having led it away, water it? ¹⁶ But this one, being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for behold, ten and eight years— ought she not to have been released from this bond on the day of the Sabbath?” ¹⁷ And while He was saying these things, all the ones being opposed to Him were being put-to-shame.

The Crowd Rejoices Over What Jesus Did. He Says, The Kingdom of God Starts Small

And the whole crowd was rejoicing over all the glorious things being done by Him.