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17Obey your leaders and be subject to them. For they watch over you, as if to render an account of your souls. So then, may they do this with joy, and not with grief. Otherwise, it would not be as helpful to you.
1And know this: that in the last days perilous times will press near. 2Men will be lovers of themselves, greedy, self-exalting, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked, 3without affection, without peace, false accusers, unchaste, cruel, without kindness, 4traitorous, reckless, self-important, loving pleasure more than God, 5even having the appearance of piety while rejecting its virtue. And so, avoid them. 6For among these are ones who penetrate houses and lead away, like captives, foolish women burdened with sins, who are led away by means of various desires,
8Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother,
8I will give you understanding, and I will instruct you in this way, in which you will walk. I will fix my eyes upon you.
16All Scripture, having been divinely inspired, is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in justice,
3And we can be sure that we have known him by this: if we observe his commandments. 4Whoever claims that he knows him, and yet does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
1Now there were, in the Church at Antioch, prophets and teachers, among whom were Barnabas, and Simon, who was called the Black, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manahen, who was the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. 2Now as they were ministering for the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said to them: “Separate Saul and Barnabas for me, for the work for which I have selected them.” 3Then, fasting and praying and imposing their hands upon them, they sent them away. 4And having been sent by the Holy Spirit, they went to Seleucia. And from there they sailed to Cyprus.
14Where there is no governor, the people shall fall. But where there is much counsel, well-being shall be.
14I am writing these things to you, with the hope that I will come to you soon. 15But, if I am delayed, you should know the manner in which it is necessary to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the Church of the living God, the pillar and the foundation of truth.
1Be imitators of me, as I also am of Christ. 2Now I praise you, brothers, because you are mindful of me in everything, in such a way as to hold to my precepts as I have handed them down to you.
6Now in that place, there were six stone water jars, for the purification ritual of the Jews, containing two or three measures each. 7Jesus said to them, “Fill the water jars with water.” And they filled them to the very top. 8And Jesus said to them, “Now draw from it, and carry it to the chief steward of the feast.” And they took it to him. 9Then, when the chief steward had tasted the water made into wine, since he did not know where it was from, for only the servants who had drawn the water knew, the chief steward called the groom, 10and he said to him: “Every man offers the good wine first, and then, when they have become inebriated, he offers what is worse. But you have kept the good wine until now.”
6But, so that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins,” he then said to the paralytic, “Rise up, take up your bed, and go into your house.” 7And he arose and went into his house. 8Then the crowd, seeing this, was frightened, and they glorified God, who gave such power to men.
8Cure the infirm, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You have received freely, so give freely.
14And so, brothers, stand firm, and hold to the traditions that you have learned, whether by word or by our epistle. 15So may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who has loved us and who has given us an everlasting consolation and good hope in grace,
1And so, I beg you, brothers, by the mercy of God, that you offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, with the subservience of your mind. 2And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.
1Now there was a man among the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. 2He went to Jesus at night, and he said to him: “Rabbi, we know that you have arrived as a teacher from God. For no one would be able to accomplish these signs, which you accomplish, unless God were with him.” 3Jesus responded and said to him, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless one has been reborn anew, he is not able to see the kingdom of God.” 4Nicodemus said to him: “How could a man be born when he is old? Surely, he cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb to be reborn?” 5Jesus responded: “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless one has been reborn by water and the Holy Spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of God.
1A wise son is the doctrine of his father. But he who ridicules does not listen when he is reproved.
18For Christ also died once for our sins, the Just One on behalf of the unjust, so that he might offer us to God, having died, certainly, in the flesh, but having been enlivened by the Spirit. 19And in the Spirit, he preached to those who were in prison, going to those souls 20who had been unbelieving in past times, while they waited for the patience of God, as in the days of Noah, when the ark was being built. In that ark, a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water. 21And now you also are saved, in a similar manner, by baptism, not by the testimony of sordid flesh, but by the examination of a good conscience in God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 22He is at the right hand of God, devouring death, so that we may be made heirs to eternal life. And since he has journeyed to heaven, the Angels and powers and virtues are subject to him.
6The proverb is: A youth is close to his way; even when he is old, he will not withdraw from it.
50This is the bread which descends from heaven, so that if anyone will eat from it, he may not die. 51I am the living bread, who descended from heaven. 52If anyone eats from this bread, he shall live in eternity. And the bread that I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.” 53Therefore, the Jews debated among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” 54And so, Jesus said to them: “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you will not have life in you. 55Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
8Remember that you are to sanctify the day of the Sabbath. 9For six days, you will work and accomplish all your tasks. 10But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. You shall not do any work in it: you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, your beast and the newcomer who is within your gates. 11For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all the things that are in them, and so he rested on the seventh day. For this reason, the Lord has blessed the day of the Sabbath and sanctified it.
1And having called together his twelve disciples, he gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out and to cure every sickness and every infirmity. 2Now the names of the twelve Apostles are these: the First, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, 3James of Zebedee, and John his brother, Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the tax collector, and James of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, 4Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. 5Jesus sent these twelve, instructing them, saying: “Do not travel by the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter into the city of the Samaritans, 6but instead go to the sheep who have fallen away from the house of Israel.