Book of Common Prayer

This Power Made Us Alive From The Dead And Seated Us With Christ As Recipients of Grace

2 Indeed, you were dead in your trespasses and sins ² in which you formerly walked in accordance with the [present] age^[a] of this world, in accordance with the ruler of the authority^[b] of the air, of ^[c] the spirit^[d] now being at-work in the sons of ^[e] disobedience, ³ among whom even we all formerly conducted-ourselves^[f] in the desires of our flesh, doing the wants^[g] of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of ^[h] wrath, as also the rest. ⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, ⁵ even we being dead in trespasses, made-us-alive-with Christ— by grace you are saved— ⁶ and raised-us-with Him and seated-us-with Him in the heavenly-places in Christ Jesus, ⁷ in order that He might demonstrate^[i] in the coming ages^[j] the surpassing riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

For We Are Saved By Grace For The Good Works Which God Prepared For Us

⁸ For by grace you are saved through faith. And this^[k] is not from you. It is the gift of God— ⁹ not of works, in order that no one may boast. ¹⁰ For we are His workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared-beforehand in order that we might walk in them.

Proclaim The Truth Boldly; Do Not Fear Them. God Will Watch Over You

²⁴ “A disciple^[a] is not above the teacher, nor is a slave above his master. ²⁵ It is enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they called the Household-Master^[b] Beelzebul^[c], how much more His household-members! ²⁶ So do not fear^[d] them. For nothing has been covered which will not be revealed, and is secret which will not be known. ²⁷ What I am saying to you in the darkness, speak in the light. And what you are hearing in your ear, proclaim upon the housetops. ²⁸ And do not be fearing^[e] anything from the ones killing the body but not being able to kill the soul. But be fearing instead the One being able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna^[f]. ²⁹ Are not two sparrows sold for an assarion^[g]? And one of them will not fall on the ground apart from^[h] your Father. ³⁰ But even the hairs of your head have all been numbered! ³¹ So do not be fearing. You are more valuable than many sparrows.

Jesus Instructs Them About His Mission: I Came To Divide The World Over Myself

³² “Everyone therefore who will confess Me in front of people, I also will confess him in front of My Father in the heavens. ³³ But whoever denies^[i] Me in front of people, I also will deny him in front of My Father in the heavens.

⁴⁰ The one welcoming^[a] you is welcoming Me. And the one welcoming Me is welcoming the One having sent Me forth. ⁴¹ The one welcoming a prophet in the name^[b] of a prophet will receive the reward of a prophet. And the one welcoming a righteous one in the name of a righteous one will receive the reward of a righteous one. ⁴² And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple— truly I say to you he will by no means lose his reward”.