Book of Common Prayer

²⁶ Jesus said, `I tell you the truth. You do not want me because you saw the big works I did, but you want me because you ate all the bread you wanted.

²⁷ Do not work for the food that spoils, but work for the food that will never spoil, the food that will give you life for ever. The Son of Man will give you that food. God my Father has chosen him to do that.'

²⁸ They asked him, `What works does God ask us to do?'

²⁹ Jesus answered them, `The work that God asks you to do is to believe in the one whom he has sent.'

³⁰ They said, `What big work will you do? We want to see it and believe you. What work are you are going to do?

^31-32 ur fathers ate bread in the wilderness. The holy writings say, "He gave them bread from heaven to eat." ' Jesus said to them, `I tell you the truth. It was not Moses who gave you that bread from heaven. But my Father gives you true bread from heaven.

³³ He who comes down from heaven is the bread that God gives. He is the one who gives life to the world.'

³⁴ They said to him, `Lord, give us this bread always!'

³⁵ Jesus said, `I am the bread that gives life. Anyone who comes to me will never be hungry. Anyone who believes in me will never be thirsty.

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.