Book of Common Prayer

They Disapproved of Keeping God In Mind

²⁸ And as they did not approve to have^[a] God in their knowledge, God handed them over to a disapproved mind, to do the things not being proper— ²⁹ having been filled with all unrighteousness, evilness, greed, badness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; whisperers^[b], ³⁰ slanderers, God-haters^[c], violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evils, disobedient to parents, ³¹ senseless, unfaithful^[d], unaffectionate^[e], unmerciful; ³² who, having known the regulation of God that the ones practicing such things are worthy of death, not only are doing them, but are also giving-approval to the ones practicing them.

You Who Know More Truth And Judge Others By It Are Also Without Excuse

2 Therefore you are without-excuse, O human— everyone judging. For in what^[f] you are judging the other person, you are condemning yourself; for you, the one judging, are practicing the same things! ² And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon^[g] the ones practicing such things.

Do You Think You Will Escape God’s Judgment When You Do The Same Things?

³ But are you thinking this, O human— the one judging the ones practicing such things and doing them [yourself]— that you will escape the judgment of God? ⁴ Or are you disregarding the riches of His goodness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the good thing of God is leading you to repentance? ⁵ But in-accordance-with your hardness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing-up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath and the revelation of the righteous-judgment of God, ⁶ Who will render to each one according to his works— ⁷ to the ones seeking glory and honor and immortality in accordance with endurance in good work, He will render eternal life; ⁸ but to the ones indeed disobeying the truth and obeying unrighteousness out of selfish-interest^[h], there will be wrath and fury.

There Is No Respect of Persons With God Regarding Sin And Judgment

⁹ There will be affliction and distress upon every soul of the person^[i] committing evil— both of the Jew first and of the Greek. ¹⁰ But there will be glory and honor and peace to everyone working good— both to the Jew first and to the Greek. ¹¹ For there is no respect-of-persons with God.

Who Is The Greatest In The Kingdom? Whoever Will Humble Himself Like This Child

18 At that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then^[a] is greater^[b] in the kingdom of the heavens?” ² And having summoned a child, He stood him^[c] in the middle of them, ³ and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you are turned-around ^[d] and become like children^[e], you will never enter into the kingdom of the heavens. ⁴ Therefore whoever will humble himself like this child, this one is the greater one in the kingdom of the heavens.

But Woe To Whoever Causes One of My Children Believing In Me To Fall

⁵ “And whoever welcomes^[f] one such^[g] child on the basis of My name, welcomes Me. ⁶ But whoever causes one of these little ones believing in Me to fall— it would be better^[h] for him that a donkey’s millstone^[i] be hung around his neck and he be sunk in the deep-part^[j] of the sea.

Woe To The World Because of Causes of Falling. Better To Tear Out Your Eye

⁷ “Woe to the world because of the causes-of-falling. For it is a necessity that causes-of-falling should come; nevertheless, woe to the person through whom the cause-of-falling comes. ⁸ But if your hand or your foot is causing you to fall, cut it off and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter into life crippled or lame than to be thrown into the eternal fire having two hands or two feet. ⁹ And if your eye is causing you to fall, tear it out and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter into life one-eyed than to be thrown into the Gehenna^[k] of fire having two eyes.