Book of Common Prayer

Fill Up My Joy By Being United In Love And Humility

2 If then there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of ^[a] love, if any fellowship^[b] of the Spirit, if any deep-feelings and compassions, ² fill-up my joy, which is that you be thinking the same thing^[c], having the same love, united-in-spirit, thinking^[d] the one thing, ³ doing nothing based-on selfish-interest nor based on conceit, but with humble-mindedness regarding one another as surpassing^[e] yourselves; ⁴ not each looking-out-for your own things, but also each the things of others.

Think And Behave Like Christ Did

⁵ Be thinking^[f] this in you, which also was in Christ Jesus— ⁶ Who, while^[g] being^[h] in the form^[i] of God, did not regard the being equal with God a thing-to-be-grasped^[j], ⁷ but emptied Himself, having taken the form of a slave, having come^[k] in the likeness^[l] of humans^[m]. And having been found as a man in outward-appearance, ⁸ He humbled Himself, having become obedient to the point of death— and a death of a cross! ⁹ Therefore God also highly-exalted Him, and granted Him the name above every name ¹⁰ in-order-that every knee should bow at the name of Jesus— of heavenly ones and earthly ones and ones under-the-earth— ¹¹ and every tongue should confess-out^[n] that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Work Out Your Salvation As Shining Lights In The World, Holding Out The Word of Life

¹² So then my beloved, just as you always obeyed— not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence— be working-out your salvation with fear and trembling. ¹³ For God^[o] is the One working in you both the wanting^[p] and the working, for His good-pleasure.

Peter Denies Jesus

¹⁵ Now Simon Peter and another disciple^[a] were following Jesus. And that disciple was known to the high priest, and he entered with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest. ¹⁶ But Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, the one known by the high priest, went out and spoke to the doorkeeper, and brought in Peter. ¹⁷ Then the doorkeeper servant-girl says to Peter, “You are not also one of the disciples of this man, are you?” That one says, “I am not”. ¹⁸ And the slaves and the officers, having made a charcoal-fire because it was cold, were standing there and warming themselves. And Peter was also with them, standing there and warming himself.

Peter Denies Jesus a Second And Third Time

²⁵ And Simon Peter is standing there and warming himself. So they said to him, “You are not also one of His disciples, are you?” That one denied it and said, “I am not”. ²⁶ One of the slaves of the high priest, being a relative of the one of whom Peter cut-off the ear, says, “Did I not see you in the garden with Him?” ²⁷ Then again Peter denied it. And immediately a rooster crowed.