Book of Common Prayer

All Who Claim To Be Mature: Think This Same Way. Imitate Me

¹⁵ Therefore, all who are mature— let us be thinking^[a] this. And if you are thinking anything differently, God will reveal this also to you. ¹⁶ Nevertheless, to what thinking we attained, by the same let us be walking-in-line. ¹⁷ Be fellow-imitators of me, brothers, and be watching the ones walking in this manner, just as you have us as a pattern.

For There Are Many Enemies of The Cross. They Focus On Earthly Things

¹⁸ For many walk as to whom I was often saying to you, and now even weeping say, they are the enemies of the cross of Christ— ¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose god is their stomach and glory is in their shame— the ones thinking^[b] the earthly things.

And Our Citizenship Is In Heaven

²⁰ For our place-of-citizenship is in the heavens, from where also we are eagerly-awaiting the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹ Who will transform the body of our lowliness^[c] so as to be similar-in-form^[d] to the body of His glory, according-to the working that enables Him also to subject all things to Himself.

Jesus Says The Hour For Which He Came Has Come. A Seed Must Die To Bear Fruit

²⁰ Now some of the ones going up in order that they might worship at the Feast were Greeks^[a]. ²¹ So these ones came to Philip, the one from Bethsaida of Galilee, and were asking him, saying, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus”. ²² Philip comes and tells Andrew. Andrew and Philip come, and they tell Jesus. ²³ And Jesus responds to them, saying, “The hour has come for^[b] the Son of Man to be glorified. ²⁴ Truly, truly, I say to you, unless the seed of wheat having fallen to the earth dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit. ²⁵ The one loving his life loses it, and the one hating his life in this world will keep^[c] it for eternal life. ²⁶ If anyone serves Me, let him be following Me. And where I am, there also My servant will be. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.