Book of Common Prayer
Love, peace and thanksgiving
12 These are the clothes you must put on, then, since God has chosen you, made you holy, and lavished his love upon you. You must be tender-hearted, kind, humble, meek, and ready to put up with anything. 13 You must bear with one another and, if anyone has a complaint against someone else, you must forgive each other. Just as the master forgave you, you must do the same. 14 On top of all this you must put on love, which ties everything together and makes it complete. 15 Let the Messiah’s peace be the deciding factor in your hearts; that’s what you were called to, within the one body. And be thankful.
16 Let the Messiah’s word dwell richly among you, as you teach and exhort one another in all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs to God with grateful hearts. 17 And whatever you do, in word or action, do everything in the name of the master, Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the father.
41 The Judaeans then grumbled about him because he had said, “I am the bread which came down from heaven.”
42 “Isn’t this Jesus, Joseph’s son?” they said. “We know his father and mother, don’t we? So how can he say ‘I came down from heaven’?”
43 “Don’t grumble among yourselves,” answered Jesus. 44 “No one can come to me unless the father who sent me draws them—and I will raise them up on the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets, ‘They shall all be taught by God.’ Everyone who listens to what comes from the father, and learns from it, comes to me. 46 Not that anyone has seen the father except the one who is from God; he has seen the father.”
Eating and drinking the son of man
47 “I’m telling you the solemn truth,” Jesus went on. “Anyone who believes in me has the life of God’s coming age.
Scripture quotations from The New Testament for Everyone are copyright © Nicholas Thomas Wright 2011, 2018, 2019.