Book of Common Prayer

¹² Do not let anyone do a wrong thing to a person if that person did a wrong thing to him. Always do good to one another. Be good to each other and to all men.

¹³ Always be happy.

¹⁴ Talk to God at all times.

¹⁵ Thank God for everything. This is what God wants you to do through Christ Jesus.

¹⁶ Do not stop the Spirit when he wants to do something.

¹⁷ Do not despise people who speak words from God.

¹⁸ But test everything that is said. Keep what is good.

¹⁹ Have nothing to do with any kind of wrong thing.

²⁰ May God himself, who gives peace, make you pure and clean. You are set apart and belong only to him. And may your spirit and soul and body all together be kept free from fault until our Lord Jesus Christ comes.

²¹ ) It is God who calls you, and he can be trusted. He will surely do what he has said.

²² My brothers, ask God to help us.

²³ Greet all the brothers with a kiss that is holy.

²⁴ I give you this order from the Lord. Read this letter to all the Christian brothers.

²⁵ May our Lord Jesus Christ bless you. May it be so.

²⁹ Jesus told them a story. He said, `Look at a fig tree. Look at all the trees.

³⁰ As soon as you see the leaves coming, you know that it will soon be the warm time of the year.

³¹ It is the same way when you see all these things happening. You will know that the kingdom of God is near.

³² I tell you the truth. People who are living then will not die before all these things happen.

³³ The sky and the earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.'

³⁴ `But take care. Do not think too much about eating, drinking, and things in this life. If you do, that day will come and catch you like a trap.

³⁵ That day will come to all people who are living on the whole earth.

³⁶ Watch all the time. Ask God to make you strong to do right so that you will not go through all these things that are going to happen. Ask him to make you able to stand in front of the Son of Man.'

³⁷ Jesus taught in the temple every day. But at night he went out and stayed on the hill called the Mount of Olives.

³⁸ Early in the morning all the people came to hear him in the temple.