Book of Common Prayer

Watch Out For an Evil Heart of Unbelief As Long As It Is Called “Today”

¹² Be watching-out, brothers, so that there will not-ever be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing^[a] from the living God. ¹³ But be exhorting yourselves each day, as long as it is called “Today”, in order that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

For We Are Partakers of Christ If We Hold On Until The End

¹⁴ For we have become^[b] partakers^[c] of Christ if-indeed we hold-on-to the beginning of our assurance^[d] firm until the end— ¹⁵ in that it is^[e] said [in Ps 95:7-8]: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion”.

For Israel Did Not Enter God’s Rest Because of Unbelief

¹⁶ For who having heard rebelled? But was it not all the ones having come out of Egypt through Moses? ¹⁷ And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with the ones having sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? ¹⁸ And to whom did He swear that they will not enter into His rest, except to the ones having disobeyed? ¹⁹ And we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.

They All Visit a Wedding, Where Jesus Reveals His Glory By Turning Water Into Wine

2 And on the third^[a] day a wedding took place in Cana of Galilee. And the mother of Jesus was there. ² And both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding-celebration. ³ And it having come-short-of wine, the mother of Jesus says to Him, “They do not have wine”. ⁴ And Jesus says to her, “What^[b] do I have to do with you, woman^[c]? My hour has not yet come”. ⁵ His mother says to the servants, “Do^[d] whatever thing He says to you”. ⁶ Now six stone waterpots were setting there for the purification^[e] [rite] of the Jews, each having-room-for two or three measures^[f]. ⁷ Jesus says to them, “Fill the waterpots with water”. And they filled them up to the top. ⁸ And He says to them, “Draw some now, and carry it to the headwaiter^[g]”. And the ones carried it. ⁹ And when the headwaiter tasted the water having become wine— and he did not know where it was from, but the servants having drawn the water knew— the headwaiter calls the bridegroom, ¹⁰ and says to him, “Every person first puts out the fine wine, and when they get-drunk^[h], the lesser. You have kept the fine wine until now”. ¹¹ Jesus did this beginning^[i] of signs in Cana of Galilee, and revealed His glory. And His disciples believed in Him. ¹² After this He went down to Capernaum— He and His mother and His brothers and His disciples. And they stayed there not many days.