Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

²⁶ ¶ And the angel of the Lord spoke unto Philip, saying, Arise and go toward the south unto the way that goes down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.

²⁷ Then he arose and went, and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure and had come to Jerusalem to worship,

²⁸ was returning and sitting in his chariot reading Isaiah the prophet.

²⁹ Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near and join thyself to this chariot.

³⁰ And Philip ran there to him and heard him read the prophet Isaiah and said, Dost thou understand what thou readest?

³¹ And he said, How can I, except someone should guide me? And he besought Philip to come up and sit with him.

³² The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth;

³³ in his humiliation his judgment was taken away, and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.

³⁴ And the eunuch answered Philip and said, I pray thee, of whom does the prophet speak this? of himself or of some other?

³⁵ Then Philip opened his mouth and began at the same scripture and preached unto him the gospel of Jesus.

³⁶ And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water; and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what hinders me to be baptized?

³⁷ And Philip said, If thou dost believe with all thine heart, thou may. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

³⁸ And he commanded the chariot to stand still, and they went both down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

³⁹ And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, so that the eunuch saw him no more, and he went on his way rejoicing.

⁴⁰ But Philip was found at Azotus, and passing through, he preached the gospel in all the cities until he came to Caesarea.

²⁵ My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation; I will pay my vows before those that fear him.

²⁶ The poor shall eat and be satisfied: those that seek him shall praise the LORD; your heart shall live for ever.

²⁷ All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto the LORD; and all the families of the Gentiles shall worship before thee.

²⁸ For the kingdom is the LORD’s, and he shall have dominion over the Gentiles.

²⁹ All those that are fat upon earth shall eat and worship; all those that go down to the dust shall bow before him; and no one can keep his own soul alive.

³⁰ A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

³¹ They shall come and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he has done this.

⁷ ¶ Beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. Anyone that loves is born of God and knows God.

⁸ He that does not love does not know God, for God is charity.

⁹ In this was the charity of God demonstrated in us, in that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

¹⁰ In this does the charity consist, not because we had loved God, but because he loved us and has sent his Son to be the reconciliation for our sins.

¹¹ Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

¹² No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and his charity is completed in us.

¹³ In this we know that we abide in him, and he in us, in that he has given us of his Spirit.

¹⁴ ¶ And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

¹⁵ Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

¹⁶ And we have known and believed the charity that God has in us. God is charity, and he that abides in charity abides in God, and God in him.

¹⁷ ¶ In this the charity with us is made perfect, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, that as he is, so are we in this world.

¹⁸ In charity there is no fear; but charity that is perfect casts out fear; because fear has torment; from which he that fears is not complete in charity.

¹⁹ We love him, because he first loved us.

²⁰ If anyone says, I love God and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he that does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

²¹ And we have this commandment from him, That he who loves God loves his brother also.

15 ¶ I AM the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

² Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he shall take away; and every one that bears fruit, he shall purge that they may bring forth more fruit.

³ Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

⁴ Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abides in the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

⁵ I AM the vine, ye are the branches: he that abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.

⁶ He who does not abide in me shall be cast forth as an unsound branch and shall wither, and they are gathered and cast into the fire and are burned.

⁷ If ye abide in me and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

⁸ In this is my Father clarified, in that ye bear much fruit; and in this manner ye shall be my disciples.