Book of Common Prayer

⁸ Do not have any debts, but love each other. Anyone who loves his neighbour has done all that the law says we should do.

⁹ The law says, `Do not commit adultery. Do not kill. Do not steal. Do not want things that belong to other people.' These laws and others are all in this one law: `Love your neighbour as you love yourself.'

¹⁰ Anyone who loves his neighbour will do no wrong to him. So love does all that the law says to do.

¹¹ In all this you know what a special time it is. It is time now for you to wake up from your sleep. The time when we will be saved is nearer to us now than when we first believed.

¹² The night is almost past. Morning is near. Let us stop doing the wrong things people do in the dark. Let us do the good things that people do in the light.

¹³ Let us live in the right way like people who are in the light. We must not take part in noisy feasting with dancing, or get drunk. We must not do any kind of wrong thing with sex. We must not quarrel or be jealous.

¹⁴ But you must take the Lord Jesus Christ into your hearts. And do not plan to do the wrong things your bodies want to do.

³⁶ Then Jesus came to a place called Gethsemane. He said to his disciples, `Sit down here. I will go over there and talk with God.'

³⁷ He took Peter and Zebedee's two sons with him. Jesus began to be sad and troubled.

³⁸ He said to them, `My heart is very sad. I am almost dying! Stay here and watch with me.'

³⁹ Jesus went on a little further. He bowed down with his face to the ground. He talked to God and said, `My Father, if it can be, let this cup of trouble pass by me. But do not do what I want. May what you want be done.'

⁴⁰ Jesus went back to the disciples and found them sleeping. He said to Peter, `What? Could you not watch with me for one hour?

⁴¹ Watch and talk with God, so that you will not do wrong. A person's heart can want to do it, but his body is weak.'

⁴² Jesus went away again. He talked to God and said, `My Father, if you do not want this cup to pass by me, but you want me to drink it, I will do what you want.'

⁴³ Jesus went back again and found the disciples sleeping. They could not keep their eyes open.

⁴⁴ He left them and went away again. He talked with God the third time and said the same words.

⁴⁵ Then he went back to his disciples and said to them, `Are you still sleeping and resting? The time has come now. The Son of Man is given over to bad people.

⁴⁶ Get up. Let us go. Look, here comes the one who will give me over to people who hate me!'