Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
15 Take care how you live. Do not live like people who are not wise, but live like people who are wise.
16 Make good use of time because people live in very wrong ways these days.
17 So then, be wise and understand what the Lord wants.
18 Do not get drunk with wine. That is living in a wrong way. But be filled with the Spirit.
19 Speak to one another by the songs in the holy writings, and songs of praise, and Christian songs. Sing and make a joyful noise in your hearts to the Lord.
20 Always thank God the Father for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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.'
52 The leaders of the Jews began to quarrel with each other about what Jesus said. They said, `How can he give us himself to eat?'
53 Jesus said, `I tell you the truth. If you do not eat the Son of Man and do not drink his blood, you will not have life.
54 Anyone who eats me and drinks my blood will live for ever. I will raise him up at the last day.
55 I am real food, and my blood is real drink.
56 Anyone who eats me and drinks my blood is in me and I in him.
57 My Father is living. He sent me. I have my life from him. In the same way, the person who eats of me will live because of me.
58 This bread which came down from heaven is not like the bread that your fathers ate. They ate bread but they died. Anyone who eats this bread from heaven will live for ever.'
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