Book of Common Prayer

6 Children, obey your parents as the Lord wants you to. This is the right thing to do. 2,

² `Respect your father and mother.' This is the first law of God with a promise: `So that all will be well with you, and that you may live long on earth.'

³ Fathers, do not make your children angry. But teach them the things children need to know, and tell them what they must not do. Teach them what Christ would teach them.

⁴ Servants, obey your boss. Respect him with all your heart and try to please him as you would Christ.

⁵ Obey not only when he is looking at you, as if you were pleasing a man. But obey as the servants of Christ, and do with all your heart what God wants you to do.

⁶ Work gladly as if you were working for the Lord and not for men.

⁷ You know that the Lord will pay every man for the good things he does. It does not matter if he is a servant or a free man.

⁸ And you who are bosses, be good to your servants also. Do not talk loud, hard words to them. Remember that both their Lord and yours is in heaven. He does not love one person more than another.

⁹ Last of all, I say this. Be strong in the Lord and use the strength he gives.

³⁵ In the evening of that day, Jesus said to his disciples, `Let us cross over to the other side of the sea.'

³⁶ The disciples left the people and took Jesus away in the boat he was in. Other little boats were with him.

³⁷ A very strong wind began to blow. Water came in the boat. It began to fill up with water.

³⁸ Jesus was in the back end of the boat, sleeping with his head on a pillow. The disciples woke him up. `Master,' they shouted. `We will die! Do you not care?'

³⁹ Then Jesus got up. He said to the wind and the sea, `Stop!' The wind stopped. Then all was quiet.

⁴⁰ Then he said to the disciples, `Why do you fear? Do you not believe in God?'

⁴¹ The disciples were surprised. They said to each other, `What kind of man is this? Even the wind and the sea obey him.'