Book of Common Prayer

²⁵ We must not be proud of ourselves. We must not make one another angry. We must not want what other people have.

6 My brothers, perhaps a man has done something wrong. If so, you who are strong in the Spirit must help him to do the right thing again. Help him in a gentle way. Take care yourself, that you are not tried and will want to do wrong.

² Help each other in your troubles. In that way you obey Christ's law.

³ A man who thinks that he is an important person when he is not, that man fools himself.

⁴ Let every man test his own work. Then he will be proud of his own work. He will not be proud because he thinks his own work is better than someone else's work.

⁵ Each man must carry his own load.

⁶ People are taught the word of God. They should give some of all the good things they have to those who teach them.

⁷ Do not be fooled about this. God cannot be fooled. A man gets what he plants.

⁸ The man who plants the wrong things he wants to do will get death, because of those wrong things. But the person who plants what the Spirit wants him to do will live for ever, because of the Spirit.

⁹ We must not get tired of doing good things. If we do not stop doing them, we will get something back when the right time comes.

¹⁰ So then, when we can, we should do good to all people. But most of all, we should do it to those who are in God's family.

²¹ From that time on, Jesus began to teach his disciples. He said, `I must go to Jerusalem. I will have much trouble from the leaders, the chief priests, and the scribes. I will be killed. On the third day, I will be raised from death.'

²² Peter took him to one side and began to talk to him. He said, `Lord! May God stop it! This must never happen to you.'

²³ But Jesus turned to Peter and said, `Get away from me Satan! You are trying to make me do wrong. You are not thinking the way God thinks, but the way people think.'

²⁴ Then Jesus told his disciples, `If anyone wants to come with me, he must leave what he himself wants to do. He must be willing to carry his cross and come with me.

²⁵ Anyone who wants to keep his life will lose it. And anyone who gives up his life for my sake will find it.

²⁶ What good will it do a man if he gets the whole world for himself, but loses his life? What can a person give to get back his life?

²⁷ The Son of Man will come with his angels and will be great like his Father. Then he will pay every man for what he has done.

²⁸ I tell you the truth. Some people are standing here who will not die before they see the Son of Man come in his kingdom.'