Book of Common Prayer

Brothers, I Am Forgetting The Past And Pressing On Toward The True Prize

¹² Not that I already obtained it or have already been made-perfect^[a], but I am pressing-on to see if I may indeed take-hold-of ^[b] that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brothers, I do not consider myself to have taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things behind and stretching-toward the things ahead, ¹⁴ I am pressing-on toward the goal for the prize of the upward^[c] calling from God in Christ Jesus.

All Who Claim To Be Mature: Think This Same Way. Imitate Me

¹⁵ Therefore, all who are mature— let us be thinking^[d] this. And if you are thinking anything differently, God will reveal this also to you. ¹⁶ Nevertheless, to what thinking we attained, by the same let us be walking-in-line. ¹⁷ Be fellow-imitators of me, brothers, and be watching the ones walking in this manner, just as you have us as a pattern.

For There Are Many Enemies of The Cross. They Focus On Earthly Things

¹⁸ For many walk as to whom I was often saying to you, and now even weeping say, they are the enemies of the cross of Christ— ¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose god is their stomach and glory is in their shame— the ones thinking^[e] the earthly things.

And Our Citizenship Is In Heaven

²⁰ For our place-of-citizenship is in the heavens, from where also we are eagerly-awaiting the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹ Who will transform the body of our lowliness^[f] so as to be similar-in-form^[g] to the body of His glory, according-to the working that enables Him also to subject all things to Himself.

Jesus Prays: Father, Glorify Your Son

17 Jesus spoke these things, and having lifted-up His eyes to heaven, said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, so that the Son may glorify You— ² just as You gave Him authority over all flesh in order that as to all that^[a] You have given Him, He may give eternal life to them. ³ And this is eternal life: that they may be knowing You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ Whom You sent-forth. ⁴ I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given to Me that I should do. ⁵ And now Father, You glorify Me with Yourself with the glory which I was having with You before the world was.

I Have Revealed Your Name To The Men You Gave Me. Keep Them In Your Name

⁶ “I revealed Your name to the men whom You gave to Me out of the world. They were Yours, and You gave them to Me. And they have kept Your word. ⁷ They have now come-to-know that all^[b] things that You have given to Me are from You— ⁸ because I have given them the words which You gave to Me, and they received them, and truly understood that I came forth from You, and believed that You sent Me forth.