Book of Common Prayer

Be Loving, Pure, and Content

13 Let brotherly-love continue. ² Do not be forgetting hospitality, for through this some having entertained^[a] angels did not know it. ³ Remember^[b] the prisoners, as-though having been imprisoned-with them; the ones being mistreated, as-though^[c] also yourselves being in their body. ⁴ Let marriage be^[d] honored^[e] by all^[f], and the bed undefiled. For God will judge the sexually-immoral-ones and adulterers. ⁵ Let character be without-love-of-money, being content with the present things. For He Himself has said [in Deut 31:6] “I will never^[g] let you go^[h], nor will I by any means forsake^[i] you”, ⁶ so that while being confident we say “The Lord is a helper for me and I will not fear. What^[j] will a human do to me?” [Ps 118:6].

Imitate The Faith of Your Leaders. Do Not Be Carried Away By Strange Teachings

⁷ Remember the ones leading you, who spoke the word of God to you, whose faith^[k] be imitating while looking-carefully-at the result^[l] of their way-of-life^[m]. ⁸ Jesus^[n] Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. ⁹ Do not be carried-away^[o] by various^[p] and strange^[q] teachings. For it is good for the heart to be established^[r] by grace, not by foods in-connection-with^[s] which the ones walking were not profited.

We Have a Spiritual Altar. Let Us Go Out And Offer Sacrifices of Praise

¹⁰ We have an altar^[t] from which the ones serving^[u] in the tabernacle have no right^[v] to eat. ¹¹ For of animals from which the blood is brought into the Holies by the high priest for sin— the bodies of these are burned-up^[w] outside of the camp. ¹² Therefore^[x] Jesus also, in order that He might make the people holy with His own blood, suffered outside^[y] of the gate. ¹³ So-indeed^[z], let us go-out^[aa] to Him outside of the camp, bearing His reproach. ¹⁴ For here we do not have an abiding city, but we are seeking-for the one coming. ¹⁵ Therefore through Him let us be continually offering a sacrifice of ^[ab] praise to God— that is, the fruit of lips praising^[ac] His name. ¹⁶ And do not be forgetting good-doing and sharing. For with such sacrifices God is pleased.

On The Last Day Jesus Said, Come To Me. The Crowd Remained Divided Over Him

³⁷ Now on the last day, the great day of the Feast, Jesus was standing there. And He cried-out, saying, “If anyone is thirsting, let him come to Me and drink. ³⁸ The one believing in Me, just as the Scripture said— Rivers of living water will flow from his^[a] belly”. ³⁹ Now He said this concerning the Spirit, Whom the ones having believed in Him were going to receive. For the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. ⁴⁰ Then some from the crowd, having heard these words, were saying “This One is truly the Prophet^[b]”. ⁴¹ Others were saying “This One is the Christ”. But the^[c] ones were saying “The Christ is not indeed^[d] coming from Galilee, is He? ⁴² Did not the Scripture say that the Christ comes from the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?” ⁴³ So a division took place in the crowd because of Him. ⁴⁴ And some of them were wanting to seize Him, but no one put his hands on Him.

Most of The Jewish Rulers And Pharisees Did Not Believe In Him

⁴⁵ Then the officers went to the chief priests and Pharisees. And those ones said to them, “For what reason did you not bring Him?” ⁴⁶ The officers answered, “Never did a man speak in this manner”. ⁴⁷ Then the Pharisees responded to them, “You also have not been deceived, have you? ⁴⁸ Someone from the rulers did not believe in Him, did he, or from the Pharisees? ⁴⁹ But this crowd not knowing the Law— they are accursed ones”. ⁵⁰ Nicodemus— the one having come to Him formerly, being one of them— says to them, ⁵¹ “Our Law does not judge the person unless it first hears from him, and knows what he is doing, does it ?” ⁵² They responded and said to him, “You also are not from Galilee, are you? Search and see that a prophet does not arise from Galilee”.