Book of Common Prayer

For God Has Displayed Us Apostles As Last And Lowest In This World

⁸ You are already satisfied^[a]! You already became-rich! You became-kings^[b] without us! And o-that indeed you became-kings, in order that we also might reign with you. ⁹ For I think God displayed^[c] us the apostles as last^[d], like ones condemned-to-death— because we were-made^[e] a spectacle^[f] to the world, both to angels and to people. ¹⁰ We are foolish ones for the sake of Christ, but you are wise ones in Christ. We are weak ones, but you are strong ones. You are distinguished ones, but we are dishonored ones. ¹¹ Until the present hour indeed we hunger, and thirst, and are naked^[g], and are beaten, and live-transiently^[h], ¹² and labor— working with our own hands. ¹³ While being reviled^[i], we bless; while being persecuted, we endure; while being slandered, we conciliate^[j]. We were-made^[k] like the sweepings^[l] of the world, the scum^[m] of all things, up to now.

I Am Writing To Admonish You As My Children. Be Imitators of Me

¹⁴ I am writing these things not shaming you, but admonishing you as my beloved children. ¹⁵ For if you should have ten-thousand tutors^[n] in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers. For I fathered you in Christ Jesus through the good-news. ¹⁶ Therefore I exhort you— be^[o] imitators of me. ¹⁷ For this reason I sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you as to my ways in Christ Jesus, just as I am teaching everywhere in every church. ¹⁸ Now some were puffed-up as-if I were not coming to you. ¹⁹ But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills. And I shall come-to-know not the talk^[p] of the ones having been puffed-up, but the power. ²⁰ For the kingdom of God is not in^[q] talk, but in power. ²¹ What do you want? Should I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentleness?

Some Say Do Not Murder. I Say Do Not Get Angry

²¹ “You heard that it was said to^[a] the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder’, and ‘Whoever murders shall be liable^[b] to the judgment’. ²² But I say to you that everyone being angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca’^[c], shall be liable to the Sanhedrin. And whoever says, ‘Fool’^[d], shall be liable to the Gehenna^[e] of ^[f] fire. ²³ Therefore if you are offering your gift at the altar, and there you remember that your brother has something against you, ²⁴ leave your gift there in front of the altar, and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then, having come, be offering your gift. ²⁵ Be settling with your adversary quickly— until^[g] you are with him on the way [to court]— that your adversary might not perhaps hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison. ²⁶ Truly I say to you, you will by no means come out from there until you pay the last quadrans^[h].