Book of Common Prayer

He exhorts us to love, to be ready to take people in, to be thoughtful of persons in adversity, to maintain wedlock, to avoid covetousness, to make much of those who preach God’s word, to beware of other teaching, to be content to suffer rebuke with Christ, to be thankful to God, and to be obedient to those who have the oversight of us.

13 Let brotherly love continue. ² Be not forgetful to lodge strangers, for by so doing some have received angels into their houses unawares. ³ Remember those who are in bonds, even as though you were bound with them. Be mindful of those who are in adversity, as persons who are yourselves also yet in your bodies.

⁴ Let wedlock be had in honour in all points, and let the bedchamber be undefiled. For whorekeepers and adulterers God will judge.

⁵ Let your living be without covetousness, and be content with what you have already. For he has truly said: I will not fail you nor forsake you. ⁶ Therefore we may boldly say: The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man does to me.

⁷ Remember those who have the oversight of you, who have declared to you the word of God. See that you look upon the way they live out their life, and follow their faith.

⁸ Jesus Christ continues the same yesterday and today and forever. ⁹ Do not be carried about with other and different teaching. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace, and not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied in them.

¹⁰ We have an altar from which those who serve in the tabernacle may not eat. ¹¹ For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest to purge sin, are burnt outside the tents. ¹² Therefore Jesus, to sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered outside the gate.

¹³ Let us go forth therefore out of the tents and suffer rebuke with him. ¹⁴ For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. ¹⁵ For by him we offer the sacrifice of laud always to God; that is to say, the fruit of those lips that confess his name.

¹⁶ To do good and to distribute to the poor, do not forget. For with such sacrifices, God is pleased. 

³⁷ In the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come unto me and drink. ³⁸ He who believes on me, as says the scripture, out of his belly shall flow rivers of the water of life.

³⁹ He spoke this of the Spirit, which those who believed on him would receive.  For the Holy Spirit was not yet there, because Jesus was not yet glorified. ⁴⁰ Many of the people, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth, this is a prophet. ⁴¹ Others said, This is the Christ. Some said, Will the Christ come out of Galilee? ⁴² Does the scripture not say that Christ will come of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?

⁴³ So was there dissension among the people about him. ⁴⁴ And some of them wanted to seize him, but no man laid hands on him.

⁴⁵ Then the officers went to the high priests and Pharisees, who said to them, Why have you not brought him? ⁴⁶ The officers answered, Never did any man speak as this man does. ⁴⁷ Then the Pharisees answered them, Are you also deceived? ⁴⁸ Do any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believe on him? ⁴⁹ But the common people, who do not know the law, are cursed.

⁵⁰ Nicodemus (he who had come to Jesus by night, and was one of them) said to them, ⁵¹ Does our law judge any man before it hears him and knows what he has done? ⁵² They answered and said to him, Are you also of Galilee? Search and look, for no prophet arises out of Galilee.