Book of Common Prayer

¹² Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am, for I am as you are.

You have not hurt me at all. ¹³ You know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel to you at the first. ¹⁴ And the adversity I suffered by reason of my flesh, you did not turn away or shrink from, but you received me as an angel of God, yea as Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ How happy were you then? For I can attest that, if it had been possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me. ¹⁶ Have I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

¹⁷ They are fervent over you amiss. Yea, they intend to exclude you so that you will be fervent for them. ¹⁸ It is good always to be fervent, provided it be in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

¹⁹ My little children, for whom I travail in birth again until Christ be fashioned in you, ²⁰ I wish I were with you now, and could change my tone. For I am in doubt concerning you.

²¹ And Jesus went from there, and withdrew to the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. ²² And a woman who was a Canaanite came out of the same region and cried out to him, saying, Have mercy on me, Lord Son of David! My daughter is piteously vexed with a devil. ²³ But he gave her never a word in answer. Then his disciples came to him and urged him, saying, Send her away; she is following us, crying. ²⁴ He answered and said, I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

²⁵ Then she came and worshipped him, saying, Master, help me! ²⁶ He answered and said, It is not good to take the children’s bread and to cast it to dogs. ²⁷ She answered and said, True, Lord; nevertheless, the dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from their master’s table. ²⁸ Then Jesus answered and said to her, O woman, great is your faith! Let it be unto you even as you desire.

And her daughter was made whole even at that same hour.