Book of Common Prayer

Children, Honor Your Parents

6 Children, be obeying your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ² “Be honoring your father and mother”— which is the first commandment with a promise— ³ “in order that it may be well with you and you may be long-lived upon the earth” [Deut 5:16].

Fathers, Nourish Your Children In The Lord

⁴ And fathers, do not be provoking your children to anger, but be nourishing them in the training^[a] and admonition^[b] of the Lord.

Slaves And Masters, Live As Slaves of Christ

⁵ Slaves, be obeying your masters according-to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ— ⁶ not by way of eye-service as people-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul, ⁷ serving with good-will as to the Lord and not to people, ⁸ knowing that each one, if he does anything good, will receive this back from the Lord, whether slave or free. ⁹ And masters, be doing the same things to them, giving-up the threatening, knowing that both their Master and yours is in the heavens, and there is no respect-of-persons with Him.

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?”