Book of Common Prayer

This Means We Have Peace With God And Access To His Grace Through Jesus Christ

5 Therefore, having been declared-righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, ² through Whom also we have the access by faith into this grace in which we stand.

And In Spite of Our Afflictions, Our Hope Will Not Disappoint Us, For God Loves Us

And we are boasting over the hope of the glory of God. ³ And not only this, but we also are boasting in the afflictions— knowing that the affliction is producing endurance, ⁴ and the endurance is producing approvedness, and the approvedness is producing hope, ⁵ and the hope does not put-to-shame^[a] because the love of God has been poured-out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit having been given to us.

For God Shows His Love For Us In That Christ Died To Reconcile And Save Us

⁶ For while we were still being weak, yet at the right-time, Christ died for ungodly ones. ⁷ For one will rarely^[b] die for a righteous person; for^[c] perhaps someone may even dare to die for the good person. ⁸ But God demonstrates^[d] His own love for us because while we were still being sinners, Christ died for us. ⁹ Therefore by much more, having now been declared-righteous by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath through Him. ¹⁰ For if while being enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, by much more having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

Our Boast Is In God Through Jesus Christ

¹¹ And not only this, but we are also boasting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom we now received the reconciliation.

22 ¹ And having responded, Jesus again spoke in parables to them, saying, ² “The kingdom of the heavens became-like^[a] a man who was a king, who made wedding-celebrations for his son. ³ And he sent out his slaves to call the ones having been invited^[b] to the wedding-celebrations, and they were not willing to come. ⁴ Again he sent out other slaves saying, ‘Say to the ones having been invited, “Behold— I have prepared my luncheon^[c], my bulls and fatted-cattle having been slaughtered, and everything is prepared. Come to the wedding-celebrations”’. ⁵ But the ones, having paid-no-concern^[d], departed— one to his own field, and another on his business. ⁶ And the rest, having seized his slaves, mistreated them and killed them. ⁷ And the king became angry^[e]. And having sent his troops, he destroyed those murderers and set their city on fire. ⁸ Then he says to his slaves, ‘The wedding-celebration is prepared— but the ones having been invited were not worthy! ⁹ Therefore go to the outlets^[f] of the roads, and invite all-that you find to the wedding-celebrations’. ¹⁰ And having gone out into the roads, those slaves gathered-together all whom they found, both evil^[g] and good. And the wedding-hall was filled with ones reclining-back [to eat]. ¹¹ And the king, having come in to see^[h] the ones reclining-back [to eat], saw there a person not having dressed-in^[i] the clothing of ^[j] a wedding. ¹² And he says to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here, not having the clothing of a wedding?’ But the one was silenced. ¹³ Then the king said to the servants, ‘Having bound his feet and hands, throw him out, into the outer darkness’. In that place, there will be the weeping and the grinding of teeth. ¹⁴ For many are called ones, but few are chosen ones”.