Book of Common Prayer

¹³ Therefore gird up the loins of your minds, be sober, and trust fully on the grace that is brought to you by the declaring of Jesus Christ, ¹⁴ as obedient children – not fashioning yourselves to your old lusts of ignorance, ¹⁵ but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy, in all manner of conduct, ¹⁶ because it is written: Be holy, for I am holy.

¹⁷ And if it be so that you call on the Father, who without respect of person judges according to each one’s works, see that you pass the time of your pilgrimage in fear. ¹⁸ For you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible silver and gold from the vain ways that you received from the fathers, ¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb undefiled and without spot. ²⁰ He was ordained before the world was made, but was shown in these last times for your sakes – ²¹ you who, by means of him, have believed on God, who raised him from death and glorified him so that your faith and hope may be in God.

²² And inasmuch as you have purified your souls through the Spirit, in the obedience of truth with brotherly love unfeigned, see that you love one another with a pure heart fervently. ²³ For you are born anew, not of mortal seed, but of immortal: by the word of God, which lives and lasts forever.

²⁴ For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man is as the flower of grass.  The grass withers, and the flower falls away, ²⁵ but the word of the Lord endures forever. And this is the word which by the gospel was preached among you.

¹⁸ I will not leave you comfortless, but will come to you.

¹⁹ Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more. But you will see me. For I live, and you will live. ²⁰ That day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

²¹ He who has my commandments and keeps them, that is he who loves me. And he who loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will show my own self to him.

²² Judas said to him (not Judas Iscariot), Lord, what is the reason that you will show yourself to us, and not to the world?

²³ Jesus answered and said to him, If a person loves me and will keep my sayings, my Father also will love him, and we will come to him and will dwell with him. ²⁴ He who does not love me does not keep my sayings. And the words that you hear are not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.

²⁵ This I have spoken to you being yet present with you. ²⁶ But the Comforter, which is the Holy Spirit (whom my Father will send in my name), he will teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have told you.

²⁷ Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, and do not fear. ²⁸ You have heard how I said to you, I am going away and coming again to you. If you loved me, you would indeed rejoice because I said I am going to the Father. For the Father is greater than I. ²⁹ And now I have told you before it comes, so that when it has come to pass, you may believe.

³⁰ Hereafter I will not speak many words to you. For the ruler of this world comes. And he has nothing in me, ³¹ but so that the world may know that I love the Father, therefore as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do.  Arise, let us go from here.