Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁴⁴ While Peter was yet speaking these words the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who were hearing the word.

⁴⁵ And the faithful of the circumcision were astonished, as many as came with Peter, that upon the nations also the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out:

⁴⁶ for they heard them speaking with tongues and magnifying God. Then Peter answered,

⁴⁷ Can any one forbid water that these should not be baptised, who have received the Holy Spirit as we also [did]?

⁴⁸ And he commanded them to be baptised in the name of the Lord. Then they begged him to stay some days.

A Psalm.

98 Sing ye unto Jehovah a new song: for he hath done wondrous things; his right hand and his holy arm hath wrought salvation for him.

² Jehovah hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the nations.

³ He hath remembered his loving-kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

⁴ Shout aloud unto Jehovah, all the earth; break forth and shout for joy, and sing psalms.

⁵ Sing psalms unto Jehovah with the harp: with the harp, and the voice of a song;

⁶ With trumpets and sound of cornet, make a joyful noise before the King, Jehovah.

⁷ Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein;

⁸ Let the floods clap [their] hands; let the mountains sing for joy together,

⁹ Before Jehovah, for he cometh to judge the earth: he will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

5 Every one that believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God; and every one that loves him that has begotten loves also him that is begotten of him.

² Hereby know we that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

³ For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not grievous.

⁴ For all that has been begotten of God gets the victory over the world; and this is the victory which has gotten the victory over the world, our faith.

⁵ Who is he that gets the victory over the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

⁶ This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus [the] Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that bears witness, for the Spirit is the truth.

⁹ As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you: abide in my love.

¹⁰ If ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

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

¹² This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.

¹³ No one has greater love than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends.

¹⁴ Ye are my friends if ye practise whatever I command you.

¹⁵ I call you no longer bondmen, for the bondman does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things which I have heard of my Father I have made known to you.

¹⁶ Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and have set you that ye should go and [that] ye should bear fruit, and [that] your fruit should abide, that whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he may give you.

¹⁷ These things I command you, that ye love one another.