Book of Common Prayer

They Disapproved of Keeping God In Mind

²⁸ And as they did not approve to have^[a] God in their knowledge, God handed them over to a disapproved mind, to do the things not being proper— ²⁹ having been filled with all unrighteousness, evilness, greed, badness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; whisperers^[b], ³⁰ slanderers, God-haters^[c], violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evils, disobedient to parents, ³¹ senseless, unfaithful^[d], unaffectionate^[e], unmerciful; ³² who, having known the regulation of God that the ones practicing such things are worthy of death, not only are doing them, but are also giving-approval to the ones practicing them.

You Who Know More Truth And Judge Others By It Are Also Without Excuse

2 Therefore you are without-excuse, O human— everyone judging. For in what^[f] you are judging the other person, you are condemning yourself; for you, the one judging, are practicing the same things! ² And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon^[g] the ones practicing such things.

Do You Think You Will Escape God’s Judgment When You Do The Same Things?

³ But are you thinking this, O human— the one judging the ones practicing such things and doing them [yourself]— that you will escape the judgment of God? ⁴ Or are you disregarding the riches of His goodness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the good thing of God is leading you to repentance? ⁵ But in-accordance-with your hardness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing-up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath and the revelation of the righteous-judgment of God, ⁶ Who will render to each one according to his works— ⁷ to the ones seeking glory and honor and immortality in accordance with endurance in good work, He will render eternal life; ⁸ but to the ones indeed disobeying the truth and obeying unrighteousness out of selfish-interest^[h], there will be wrath and fury.

There Is No Respect of Persons With God Regarding Sin And Judgment

⁹ There will be affliction and distress upon every soul of the person^[i] committing evil— both of the Jew first and of the Greek. ¹⁰ But there will be glory and honor and peace to everyone working good— both to the Jew first and to the Greek. ¹¹ For there is no respect-of-persons with God.

Jesus Goes To Jerusalem For a Feast, And Heals a Man On The Sabbath

5 After these things there was a Feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ² Now in Jerusalem near the Sheep gate, there is a pool— the one being called Bethzatha in Hebrew, having five porticos^[a]. ³ In these porticos, a multitude of the ones being sick were lying-down— blind ones, lame ones, withered ones. ^{4 [b] 5} And there was a certain man there having thirty and eight years in his sickness. ⁶ Jesus— having seen this one lying down, and having known^[c] that he already had a long time [in his sickness]— says to him, “Do you want to become healthy?” ⁷ The one being sick answered Him, “Sir, I do not have a man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred-up. But while I am going, another goes down before me”. ⁸ Jesus says to him, “Arise, pick up your cot and walk!” ⁹ And immediately the man became healthy, and picked up his cot and was walking.

They Want To Kill Jesus Because He Breaks The Sabbath And Makes Himself Equal To God

Now it was a Sabbath on that day. ¹⁰ So the Jews were saying to the one having been cured, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to pick up your cot”. ¹¹ But the one answered them, “The One having made me healthy, that One said to me, ‘Pick up your cot and walk’”. ¹² They asked him, “Who is the man having said to you, ‘Pick up and walk’?” ¹³ But the one having been healed did not know who He was. For Jesus withdrew, a crowd being in the place. ¹⁴ After these things, Jesus finds him in the temple. And He said to him, “See— you have become healthy! Do not be sinning any longer in order that something worse may not happen to you”. ¹⁵ The man went away and reported to the Jews that Jesus was the One having made him healthy. ¹⁶ And for this reason, the Jews were persecuting Jesus— because He was doing these things on a Sabbath. ¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and^[d] I am working”. ¹⁸ Therefore, for this reason the Jews were seeking more to kill Him: because He was not only breaking^[e] the Sabbath, but He was also calling God His own Father, making Himself equal^[f] to God!