Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

²⁶ But [the] angel of [the] Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Rise up and go southward on the way which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza: the same is desert.

²⁷ And he rose up and went. And lo, an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a man in power under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to worship at Jerusalem,

²⁸ was returning and sitting in his chariot: and he was reading the prophet Esaias.

²⁹ And the Spirit said to Philip, Approach and join this chariot.

³⁰ And Philip, running up, heard him reading the prophet Esaias, and said, Dost thou then know what thou art reading of?

³¹ And he said, How should I then be able unless some one guide me? And he begged Philip to come up and sit with him.

³² And the passage of the scripture which he read was this: He was led as a sheep to slaughter, and as a lamb is dumb in presence of him that shears him, thus he opens not his mouth.

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

³⁴ And the eunuch answering Philip said, I pray thee, concerning whom does the prophet say this? of himself or of some other?

³⁵ And Philip, opening his mouth and beginning from that scripture, announced the glad tidings of Jesus to him.

³⁶ And as they went along the way, they came upon a certain water, and the eunuch says, Behold water; what hinders my being baptised?

³⁸ And he commanded the chariot to stop. And they went down both to the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptised him.

³⁹ But when they came up out of the water [the] Spirit of [the] Lord caught away Philip, and the eunuch saw him no longer, for he went on his way rejoicing.

⁴⁰ And Philip was found at Azotus, and passing through he announced the glad tidings to all the cities till he came to Caesarea.

²⁵ My praise is from thee, in the great congregation; I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

²⁶ The meek shall eat and be satisfied; they shall praise Jehovah that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

²⁷ All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto Jehovah, and all the families of the nations shall worship before thee:

²⁸ For the kingdom is Jehovah's, and he ruleth among the nations.

²⁹ All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship; all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him, and he that cannot keep alive his own soul.

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 hath done [it].

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.

⁸ He that loves not has not known God; for God is love.

⁹ Herein as to us has been manifested the love of God, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

¹⁰ Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.

¹¹ Beloved, if God has 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 love is perfected in us.

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

¹⁴ And *we* have seen, and testify, that the Father has sent the Son [as] 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 have believed the love which God has to us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

¹⁷ Herein has love been perfected with us that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, that even as *he* is, *we* also are in this world.

¹⁸ There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has torment, and he that fears has not been made perfect in love.

¹⁹ *We* love because *he* has first loved us.

²⁰ If any one say, I love God, and hate his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

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

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

² [As to] every branch in me not bearing fruit, he takes it away; and [as to] every one bearing fruit, he purges it that it may bring forth more fruit.

³ Ye are already clean by reason of the word which I have spoken to you.

⁴ Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abide in the vine, thus neither [can] ye unless ye abide in me.

⁵ I am the vine, ye [are] the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, *he* bears much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.

⁶ Unless any one abide in me he is cast out as the branch, and is dried up; and they gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

⁷ If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall come to pass to you.

⁸ In this is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and ye shall become disciples of mine.