Book of Common Prayer
For Loss of The Prize Is Possible: Remember What Happened To Israel
10 For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers[a] were all under the cloud, and all went through the sea, 2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 and all ate the same spiritual[b] food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were drinking from a spiritual[c] rock following them. And the rock was Christ. 5 But God was not well-pleased with the majority of them, for they were strewn in the wilderness.
Do Not Follow Their Example
6 Now these things took place as our examples, so that we might not be desirers of evil things, as those also desired. 7 And do not be idolaters, as some of them, as-indeed it has been written [in Ex 32:6], “The people sat-down to eat and drink, and stood up to play”. 8 And let us not be committing-sexual-immorality, as some of them committed sexual immorality, and twenty three thousand fell in one day [Num 25:1-9]. 9 And let us not be putting Christ to the test, as some of them tested, and were being destroyed by the serpents [Num 21:5-6]. 10 And do not be grumbling, like some of them grumbled, and perished by the destroyer [Num 16:41-49]. 11 Now these[d] things were happening to those ones as-an-example. And it was written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come[e].
So Watch Out That You Do Not Fall
12 So then let the one thinking that he stands be watching-out that he may not fall. 13 A temptation has not seized you except what is common-to-humanity. And God is faithful, Who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but also with the temptation will make the way-out, that you may be able to endure.
Who Do You Say That I Am? Peter Says, You Are The Messiah, The Son of The Living God
13 And Jesus, having come into the regions of Philip’s[a] Caesarea, was asking His disciples, saying, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” 14 And the ones said, “Some, John the Baptist. And others, Elijah. And different ones, Jeremiah or one of the prophets”. 15 He says to them, “But who do you say that I am?” 16 And having responded, Simon Peter said “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God”. 17 And having responded, Jesus said to him, “You are blessed, Simon Bar-Jonah[b], because flesh and blood did not reveal it to you, but My Father in the heavens. 18 And I also[c] say to you that you are a rock[d], and upon this bed-rock[e] I will build My church— and the gates[f] of Hades will not prevail-against[g] it. 19 I will give you the keys[h] of the kingdom of the heavens. And whatever you[i] bind[j] on earth will have been bound[k] in the heavens, and whatever you loose on earth will have been loosed in the heavens”. 20 Then He gave-orders to the disciples that they should tell no one that He is the Christ[l].
Disciples' Literal New Testament: Serving Modern Disciples by More Fully Reflecting the Writing Style of the Ancient Disciples, Copyright © 2011 Michael J. Magill. All Rights Reserved. Published by Reyma Publishing