Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁴⁴ While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the preaching. ⁴⁵ And the men of the circumcision who believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also shed out on the Gentiles. ⁴⁶ For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God. Then Peter said, ⁴⁷ Can any man forbid water to baptize these people, who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we? ⁴⁸ And he directed them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then they asked him to stay a few days.

To love God is to keep his commandments. Faith overcomes the world. Everlasting life is in the Son of God. Of the sin unto death.

5 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And everyone who loves him who begat, loves also the child who was born of him. ² In this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep his commandments. ³ This is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not grievous. ⁴ For all that is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. ⁵ Who is it that overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

⁶ This Jesus Christ is he who came by water and blood – not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that bears witness, because the Spirit is truth.

⁹ As the Father has loved me, even so have I loved you. Continue in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, even as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.

¹¹ These things I have spoken to you so that my joy may remain in you, and so that your joy may be full.

¹² This is my commandment: that you love together, as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love than this has no man, than to bestow his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do whatsoever I command you. ¹⁵ Henceforth I do not call you servants, for the servant knows not what his lord does, but I have called you friends. For all that I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

¹⁶ You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should endure; that whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he should give it to you.

¹⁷ This I command you: love one another.