Book of Common Prayer

In Light of What God Has Done:

¹³ Therefore:

Put Your Hope Completely Upon Your Coming Salvation

Having girded-up the waist of your minds^[a], being sober^[b]— put-your-hope completely^[c] upon the grace being brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Be Holy In All Your Conduct

¹⁴ As children of ^[d] obedience not being conformed^[e] to the former desires in-connection-with your ignorance, ¹⁵ but in accordance with the holy One having called you— be holy yourselves also in all your conduct^[f]. ¹⁶ Because it has been written that “You shall be holy, because I am holy” [Lev 19:2].

Live Out Your Days In The Fear of God

¹⁷ And if you are calling-upon as Father the One judging without-respect-of-persons according to the work of each person— conduct the time of your stay^[g] with fear^[h], ¹⁸ knowing that you were redeemed from your futile^[i] way-of-life handed-down-from-your-fathers not with perishable things, silver or gold, ¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without-blemish and without-spot; ²⁰ He having been foreknown before the foundation of the world but having appeared^[j] at the last of times for your sake, ²¹ the believers through Him in God— the One having raised Him from the dead and having given Him glory— so that your faith and hope are in God.

Love One Another From a Pure Heart

²² Having purified your souls in^[k] obedience of the truth for a sincere^[l] brotherly-love— love one another fervently from a pure heart, ²³ having been born-again not from perishable seed but imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God. ²⁴ Because “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like a flower of grass. The grass was dried-up and the flower fell-off. ²⁵ But the word of the Lord abides forever” [Isa 40:6-8]— and this is the word having been announced-as-good-news to you.

Don’t Forbid The Children To Come To Me. Of Such Is The Kingdom of God

¹³ Then children were brought to Him in order that He might lay His hands on them and pray. But the disciples rebuked them^[a]. ¹⁴ But Jesus said, “Permit^[b] the children, and do not be forbidding them to come to Me. For the kingdom of the heavens is of ^[c] such ones”. ¹⁵ And having laid His hands on them, He proceeded from there.

A Rich Man Asks What To Do To Enter Heaven. Jesus Says, Sell Everything And Follow Me

¹⁶ And behold— one having come to Him said, “Teacher, what good thing should I do in order that I may have eternal life?” ¹⁷ And the One said to him, “Why do you ask Me about what is good? There is One Who is good. But if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments”. ¹⁸ He says to Him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, “You shall not murder. You shall not commit-adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not give-false-testimony. ¹⁹ Be honoring your father and your mother”. And, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself ”. ²⁰ The young man says to Him, “I kept all these things. What am I still lacking?” ²¹ Jesus said to him, “If you wish to be perfect^[d], go, sell your possessions and give it to the poor, and you will have treasure in the heavens. And come, be following Me”. ²² But having heard the statement, the young man went away grieving. For he was having many properties.