Book of Common Prayer

Finally, Put On The Full Armor of God So You Can Stand Against The Spiritual Forces of Evil

¹⁰ Finally, become-strong in the Lord and in the might of His strength. ¹¹ Put-on the full-armor of God so-that you may be able to stand against the schemes^[a] of the devil, ¹² because the struggle^[b] for us is not against blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world-powers^[c] of this darkness, against the spiritual forces^[d] of evilness in the heavenly-places. ¹³ For this reason, take-up the full-armor of God in order that you may be able to resist^[e] on the evil day, and having worked^[f] everything, to stand.

Stand Armored With Truth, Righteousness, And Faith, Wielding God’s Word And Prayer

¹⁴ Stand [firm] therefore, having girded^[g] your waist with truth, and having put-on the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵ and having sandaled your feet with the readiness^[h] of the good-news of peace, ¹⁶ with all these having taken-up the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the flaming arrows of the evil one. ¹⁷ And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword^[i] of ^[j] the Spirit, which is the Word of God, ¹⁸ praying with every-kind-of prayer and petition at every opportunity^[k] in the Spirit, and keeping-alert for it with all perseverance and petition concerning all the saints— ¹⁹ and for me, that a word may be given to me in connection with the opening of my mouth with boldness to make-known the mystery of the good-news ²⁰ for the sake of which I am-an-ambassador in a chain, that with^[l] it I may speak-boldly^[m] as I ought-to speak.

God Sent His Son Into The World That All Believing In Him May Have Eternal Life

¹⁶ “For^[a] God so^[b] loved the world that He gave His only-born Son, in order that everyone believing in Him may not perish, but may have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send-forth the Son into the world in order that He might judge^[c] the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him. ¹⁸ The one believing in Him is not judged. But the one not believing has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only-born Son of God. ¹⁹ And this is the judgment^[d]: that the Light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their works were evil. ²⁰ For everyone practicing bad things hates the Light, and does not come to the Light in order that his works may not be exposed. ²¹ But the one doing the truth comes to the Light in order that his works may become-visible— that^[e] they have been worked in^[f] God”.