Book of Common Prayer
12 So, my brothers, we must not live the way our bodies want us to live. We must not be ruled by our wrong ways.
13 If you live the way your bodies wants to live, you will die. But if, by the help of the Spirit, you stop doing the wrong things your bodies want to do, you will live.
14 All who do what God's Spirit leads them to do are God's sons.
15 The Holy Spirit you have received does not make you a slave again so that you are afraid. But the Spirit you have received makes you sons of God.
16 So we say, `Father! Father!' The Spirit himself also, along with our own spirits, tells us that we are God's children.
17 If we are his children, God will give us the good things that children receive. He will give us these blessings along with Christ. He will give it to us if we suffer with Christ. If we suffer with Christ, we will also be made great with him.
18 I think that the troubles we have in this life are nothing when we think of the great things that we shall have.
19 The whole world is waiting for the time when the sons of God will be seen.
20 The world was spoiled. It did not want to be spoiled, but God allowed it.
21 And it hoped to be free like God's children when they are made great.
22 We know that the whole world has been crying. It has had much pain until now.
23 And not the world only, but we ourselves also cry out. We have the first blessing God gives of his Spirit. But we cry out in our hearts. We are waiting for God to finish making us his sons. Then our bodies will be set free.
24 That is what we hoped for when we were saved. When the thing hoped for is seen, there is no more hoping. When a person sees a thing, how can he hope for it?
25 But if we hope for something we do not see, we keep on waiting for it.
26 Also the Spirit helps us because we are weak. We do not know how we should talk to God. But the Spirit himself talks to God for us, while we cry and cannot say any words.
27 God looks to see what is in people's hearts. And he knows what the Spirit is going to do. The Spirit talks to God for God's people. And he asks for them what God wants them to have.
41 The leaders of the Jews did not like Jesus to say, `I am the bread that has come down from heaven.'
42 They said, `Is he not Joseph's son, Jesus? We know his father and mother. How can he say, "I have come down from heaven"?'
43 Jesus answered them, `There is no need for you to talk against me to each other.
44 No one can come to me if my Father does not draw him. He sent me. I myself will raise up the one who comes to me. I will bring him back to life on the last day.
45 The prophets wrote, "God will teach all people." So then, every person who listens to his words and learns what he says, he will come to me.
46 `But no person has seen my Father. The only one who has seen him is the one who comes from God. He has seen my Father.
47 I tell you the truth. The person who believes in me will live for ever.
48 I am the bread that gives life.
49 Your fathers ate bread in the desert long ago, but they died.
50 Here is bread that comes down from heaven. The person who eats this bread will never die.
51 I am the bread that gives life. I came down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he will live for ever. I will give bread so that the world may live. I am that bread.'
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