Book of Common Prayer

⁹ Your love must be real love. Hate what is wrong. Hold to what is good.

¹⁰ Love one another very much, like brothers. Honour other people more than you honour yourself.

¹¹ Do not hold back in what you do. Let the Spirit burn in you. Work hard for the Lord.

¹² Be very happy because you have a hope. Be strong when you have trouble. Keep on talking with God.

¹³ Give to God's people who need it. Be glad to take care of strangers in your house.

¹⁴ Bless those who do wrong things to you. Bless them. Do not curse them.

¹⁵ Be happy with people who are happy. Cry with people who cry.

¹⁶ Agree with one another. Do not be proud, but be friends with anybody. Do not think you are wiser than you are.

¹⁷ When people do wrong things to you, do not do wrong things to them also. But try to do good things for all people.

¹⁸ As much as you can, live in peace with everyone.

¹⁹ My dear brothers, do not punish people who do wrong to you. But let God's anger punish them. In the holy writings the Lord says, `I myself will punish people. If they have done wrong things, I will do wrong things to them also.'

²⁰ But, `If your enemy is hungry, give him food. If he is thirsty, give him a drink. When you do that, it will be as if you put a pile of coals from the fire on his head.'

²¹ Do not let wrong things win a victory over you. But win a victory over wrong things by the good things you do.

²¹ Jesus talked to them again. He said, `I am going away. You will try to find me and will die doing wrong things. You cannot come where I am going.'

²² Then the Jews said, `Will he kill himself? He says, "You cannot come where I am going." '

²³ Jesus said to them, `You are from below. I am from above. You belong to this world. I do not belong to this world.

²⁴ That is why I said, "You will die doing wrong things." If you do not believe that I am who I said I am, then you will die doing wrong things.'

²⁵ They said to him, `Who are you?' Jesus answered, `I am what I told you from the beginning.

²⁶ I have many things to say to you and to judge you in many things. But he who sent me is true. I tell the world what he has told me.'

²⁷ The people did not understand that Jesus was talking to them about his Father.

²⁸ So Jesus said, `When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he. You will know that I do nothing by my own power, but I talk the way my Father taught me.

²⁹ He who sent me is with me always. I always do what he wants me to do.'

³⁰ Many people believed in Jesus while he was talking this way.

³¹ Jesus said to the Jews who believed in him, `If you obey my word, you are truly my disciples.

³² And you will understand the truth and the truth will make you free.'