Book of Common Prayer

First, I Urge That Prayers And Thanksgivings Be Made For All People

2 First of all then, I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings be made for all people, ² for kings and all the ones being in a place of superiority, in order that we may spend^[a] a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. ³ This^[b] is good and acceptable^[c] in the sight of our Savior God, ⁴ Who desires^[d] all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

For Jesus Gave Himself As a Ransom For All

⁵ For there is one God, and one mediator of God and people— the man Christ Jesus, ⁶ the One having given Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given in His^[e] own times

Jesus Explains The Parable of The Sower To His Disciples

¹⁸ “You therefore, hear the parable of the one having sown: ¹⁹ Anyone hearing the word^[a] of the kingdom and not understanding it— the evil one comes and snatches-away the thing having been sown in his heart. This person is the one having been sown the seed along the road. ²⁰ And the one having been sown the seed on the rocky places— this person is the one hearing the word and immediately receiving it with joy. ²¹ And he does not have a root in himself, but is temporary^[b]. And affliction or persecution having come about because of the word— immediately he is caused-to-fall. ²² And the one having been sown the seed into the thorns— this person is the one hearing the word, and the anxiety^[c] of the age^[d] and the deceitfulness^[e] of riches is choking the word, and it becomes unfruitful. ²³ And the one having been sown the seed on the good soil— this person is the one hearing the word and understanding^[f] it, who indeed^[g] is bearing-fruit^[h] and producing: one a hundred, and another sixty, and another thirty”.