Book of Common Prayer

So Walk No Longer In The Futile Darkness of The Gentiles, As They Pursue Impurity

¹⁷ Therefore this I say and testify in the Lord, that you be walking no longer as indeed the Gentiles are walking, in the futility of their mind, ¹⁸ being darkened in their understanding, having been excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance being in them, because of the hardness of their hearts— ¹⁹ who, having become callous, gave themselves over to sensuality for the practice^[a] of every impurity with greed.

Lay Aside The Old Person. Be Renewed In Your Mind And Put On The New Person

²⁰ But you did not learn Christ in this manner, ²¹ if indeed you heard Him and were taught in Him, even as it is the truth in Jesus ²² that in-relation-to your former way-of-life you lay-aside the old person being corrupted^[b] in-accordance-with the desires of ^[c] deception, ²³ and that you be being renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ and that you put-on the new person having been created in accordance with God, in righteousness and holiness of ^[d] truth.

Live Out Righteousness And Truth

²⁵ Therefore, having laid-aside the lie^[e], each of you be speaking truth with his neighbor, because we are body-parts of one another. ²⁶ Be angry and-yet do not be sinning. Do not let the sun go down upon your angriness^[f], ²⁷ nor give a place^[g] to the devil. ²⁸ Let the one stealing be stealing no longer. But rather let him be laboring, working the good thing with his own hands in order that he might have something to give to the one having a need. ²⁹ Let every bad^[h] word not proceed out of your mouth, but if there is something good for edification of the need, speak in order that it may give grace to the ones hearing. ³⁰ And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God with^[i] Whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. ³¹ Let all bitterness and anger and wrath and clamor and blasphemy^[j] be taken-away^[k] from you, along-with all malice. ³² And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other just as God in Christ also forgave you.

¹⁵ Then Jesus, having known that they were about to come and take Him away-by-force in order that they might make Him king, withdrew again to the mountain, Himself alone.

Jesus Walks On Water To Capernaum

¹⁶ Now when it became evening, His disciples went down to the sea. ¹⁷ And having gotten into a boat, they were going to the other side of the sea, to Capernaum. And darkness already had come, and Jesus had not-yet come to them. ¹⁸ And the sea was becoming aroused from a great wind blowing. ¹⁹ So having rowed about twenty five or thirty stades^[a], they see Jesus walking on the sea and becoming near the boat. And they became afraid. ²⁰ But the One says to them, “I am^[b] the One. Do not be afraid”. ²¹ So they were willing to take Him into the boat. And immediately the boat came-to-be at the land to which they were going.

The Crowd Follows Him There

²² On the next day the crowd standing on the other side of the sea saw that there had not been another small boat there except [the] one, and that Jesus had not entered into the boat with His disciples, but His disciples had gone away alone. ²³ Other^[c] small-boats came from Tiberias near the place where they ate the bread, the Lord having given-thanks. ²⁴ So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor His disciples, they got into the small boats, and went to Capernaum seeking Jesus.

Jesus Says, Work For The Food Leading To Eternal Life, Which The Son Will Give You

²⁵ And having found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, “Rabbi, when have You come here?” ²⁶ Jesus responded to them and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you— you are seeking Me not because you saw signs^[d], but because you ate of the loaves-of-bread and were filled-to-satisfaction. ²⁷ Do not be working for the food which is perishing, but for the food which is remaining to^[e] eternal life— which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father certified^[f] this One”.