Book of Common Prayer

Answers To Your Questions:

7 Now concerning the things which you wrote—

Concerning Marriage And Singleness: Live According To Your Gift From God

It is good^[a] for a man not to touch^[b] a woman. ² But because of sexual-immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. ³ Let the husband give-back to his wife her due^[c], and likewise also the wife to her husband. ⁴ The wife does not have-authority^[d] over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise also the husband does not have-authority over his own body, but the wife does. ⁵ Do not be depriving one another— except perhaps by agreement, for a time, in order that you may devote-yourselves to prayer and [then] be together again— in order that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack-of-self-control. ⁶ But I am saying this by way of concession, not by way of command. ⁷ And I wish that all people were as^[e] indeed myself! But each has his own gift from God— one in this manner and another in this manner. ⁸ And I say to the unmarried and the widows— it is good for them if they remain as I also am. ⁹ But if they do not have-self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be burning^[f].

Jesus Calms The Wind And Sea. The Disciples Say, Who Is This Man?

³⁵ And on that day, having become evening, He says to them, “Let us go to the other side”. ³⁶ And having left the crowd, they take Him along as He was^[a], in the boat. And other boats were with Him. ³⁷ And a great storm of wind takes place. And the waves were throwing-over into the boat so that the boat was already being filled. ³⁸ And He was in the stern on the cushion, sleeping. And they wake Him and say to Him, “Teacher, do You not care^[b] that we are perishing?” ³⁹ And having awakened, He rebuked the wind, and said to the sea “Be still, be silenced^[c]”. And the wind stopped. And there was a great calm. ⁴⁰ And He said to them, “Why are you afraid^[d]? Do you not yet have faith?” ⁴¹ And they feared a great fear^[e]. And they were saying to one another, “Who then is this One, that^[f] even^[g] the wind and the sea obey Him?”