Book of Common Prayer

⁵¹ Behold, I tell you a mystery^[a]: we will not all fall-asleep. But we will all be changed— ⁵² in a moment, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet. For it will trumpet, and the dead will be raised undecayable^[b], and we will be changed. ⁵³ For this decayable body must put-on undecayability, and this mortal body must put on immortality^[c]. ⁵⁴ And when this decayable body puts-on undecayability, and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying having been written will come-about^[d]: “Death was swallowed-up in victory” [Isa 25:8]. ⁵⁵ “Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your stinger?” [Hos 13:14]. ⁵⁶ Now the stinger^[e] of death is sin, and the power of sin is the Law^[f]. ⁵⁷ But thanks be to God, the One giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

So Abound In The Work of The Lord; Your Labor Is Not In Vain

⁵⁸ So then my beloved brothers, be^[g] steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not empty^[h] in the Lord.

Regarding The Sabbath, Jesus Makes Himself The Issue: I Am Lord of The Sabbath

12 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. And His disciples were hungry and began to pluck^[a] heads [of grain] and eat. ² And the Pharisees, having seen it, said to Him, “Behold— Your disciples are doing what is not lawful to be doing on a Sabbath”. ³ And the One said to them, “Did you not read [in 1 Sam 21:1-6] what David did when he was hungry, and the ones with him— ⁴ how he entered into the house of God and they ate the Bread of Presentation^[b] which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for the ones with him, but for the priests alone? ⁵ Or did you not read in the Law that on the Sabbaths, the priests in the temple profane^[c] the Sabbath and are guiltless^[d]? ⁶ But I say to you that a greater-thing than the temple is here. ⁷ But if you had known what it means [in Hos 6:6]— ‘I desire mercy, and not a sacrifice’— you would not have condemned the guiltless ones. ⁸ For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath^[e]”.

Jesus Deliberately Heals a Man On The Sabbath, Inflaming The Pharisees

⁹ And having passed-on from there, He went into their synagogue. ¹⁰ And behold— there was a man having a withered hand. And they questioned Him, saying, ‘Is it lawful to cure on the Sabbath?’— in order that they might accuse Him. ¹¹ And the One said to them, “What person will there be from-among you who will have one sheep, and if this sheep falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and raise it? ¹² How much then is a person more-valuable than a sheep! So then, it is lawful to be acting commendably^[f] on the Sabbath”. ¹³ Then He says to the man, “Stretch-out your hand”. And he stretched it out, and it was restored, healthy like the other. ¹⁴ And having gone out, the Pharisees took counsel against Him, so that they might destroy Him.