Book of Common Prayer

If You Remain In My Word, Then You Are Truly My Disciples And The Truth Will Set You Free

³¹ Then Jesus was saying to the Jews having believed Him, “If you remain^[a] in My word, you are truly My disciples, ³² and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free”.

You Are Slaves of Sin. If The Son Sets You Free, You Will Truly Be Free

³³ They responded to Him, “We are the seed of Abraham, and to no one have we ever been slaves^[b]. How is it You say that ‘You will become free’?” ³⁴ Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you that everyone doing^[c] sin is a slave of sin. ³⁵ Now the slave does not remain in the house forever. The son remains forever. ³⁶ Therefore if the Son sets you free, you will really^[d] be free.

3 ¹ See what-kind-of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called children of God! And we are! For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. ² Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet appeared^[a]. We know that if He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. ³ And everyone having this hope in^[b] Him is purifying himself, just as that One is pure. ⁴ Everyone doing sin also is doing lawlessness. Indeed sin is lawlessness. ⁵ And you know that that One appeared in order that He might take-away sins. And there is no sin in Him. ⁶ Everyone abiding in Him is not sinning^[c]. Everyone sinning has not seen Him nor known Him. ⁷ Little-children, let no one be deceiving you— the one doing righteousness is righteous, just as that One is righteous. ⁸ The one doing sin is of the devil, because the devil is sinning^[d] from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this: that He might destroy the works of the devil.