Book of Common Prayer

He exhorts them to love. He warns them to beware of uncleanness, covetousness, foolish talking, and false counsel; to be circumspect, to avoid drunkenness, to rejoice and to be thankful to God, and to submit themselves one to another. He teaches how women should obey their husbands, and how lovingly men ought to treat their wives.

5 Be followers of God as dear children, ² and walk in love, even as Christ loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice of a sweet savour to God.

³ As for fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let them not be once named among you, as it becomes saints. ⁴ Nor should there be coarseness, or foolish talking, or jestings which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. ⁵ For this you know, that no whoremonger or unclean person, or covetous person (who is an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

⁶ Let no person deceive you with vain words. For through such things comes the wrath of God upon the children of unbelief. ⁷ Therefore do not be companions with them. ⁸ You were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light. ⁹ For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.  ¹⁰ Accept that which is pleasing to the Lord, ¹¹ and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather rebuke them. ¹² For it is shameful even to name those things that are done by them in secret. ¹³ But all things, when they are rebuked by the light, are manifest. For whatsoever is manifest, that same is light. ¹⁴ Therefore he says, Awake, you who sleep, and stand up from death, and Christ will give you light.

¹⁵ Take heed therefore that you walk circumspectly – not as fools, but as wise, ¹⁶ redeeming the time. For the days are evil. ¹⁷ Therefore be not unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. ¹⁸ And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess, but be fulfilled with the Spirit, ¹⁹ speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts, ²⁰ giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Christ makes the man who was born blind able to see.

9 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man who was blind from his birth. ² And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin: this man, or his father and mother, that he was born blind? ³ Jesus answered, Neither has this man sinned, nor yet his father and mother, but it is so that the works of God may be shown on him. ⁴ I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day. The night comes, when no man can work. ⁵ As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

⁶ As soon as he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle, and rubbed the clay on the eyes of the blind man, ⁷ and said to him, Go and wash in the pool of Siloam (which, translated, means Sent). He went his way and washed, and came back seeing. ⁸ The neighbours and people that had seen him before, how he was a beggar, said, Is this not the man who sat and begged? ⁹ Some said, This is the man. Others said, He is like him. But he himself said, I am he.

¹⁰ They said to him, How were your eyes opened then? ¹¹ He answered and said, The man that is called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes, and said to me, Go to the pool Siloam and wash. And I went and washed, and received my sight.

¹² They said to him, Where is he? He said, I do not know.

³⁵ Jesus heard that they had excommunicated the man, and as soon as he found him, he said to him, Do you believe on the Son of God? ³⁶ He answered and said, Who is it, Lord, so that I can believe on him? ³⁷ And Jesus said to him, You have seen him, and he it is who talks with you.

³⁸ And he said, Lord, I believe! and worshipped him.