Therefore, rather sisters /brothers do your best to confirm your calling and election. For doing these things you will never ever stumble . For in this way an entrance will be richly provided for you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Be thou a bright flame before me, Be thou a guiding star above me Be thou a smooth path below me Be thou a kindly shepherd behind me Today – tonight -forever Amen.
For this reason, do you best to add by your faith, virtue by virtue, wisdom by wisdom, self-control by self-control, perseverance by perseverance, godliness by godliness, family-love by family-love, unselfish-love. For if these things really-are yours and are increasing they will make you neither idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord, Jesus Christ. But the one in whom these things are not present is blind, short-sighted, being forgetful about the cleansing of their past sins.
O Love, O God who created me, in your love recreate me. O Love, who redeemed me, fill up in me whatever part of your love has fallen into neglect within me. O Love, O God, who first loved me, grant that with my whole heart, and with my whole soul, and with my whole strength, I may love you.
Seeing that – his divine power having given to us everything necessary to lead to life and godliness through the knowledge of the one who calls us by his own glory and goodness, -through which he gave to us precious and very great promises so that through these things you might become sharers of the divine nature having escaped the corruption which is in the the world because of (sinful) desire…
Teach us, good Lord, to serve thee as thou deservest; to give and not to count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labour and not to ask for any reward, save that of knowing that we do thy will, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
Simeon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ to those who have received a faith-commitment as equally standing as ours through the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ
Grace to you all and may peace increase in knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord.
Grant, Lord, that we may hold to you without parting, worship you without wearying, serve you without failing; faithfully seek you, happily find you, and forever possess you, the only God,blessed now and for ever. Amen
The one coming from above, is above all things. The one being from the earth is from the earth and speaks from the earth, He who is coming from heaven is above all things.
He who has seen, and heard this, bears witness yet nobody receives his witness (statement.)
The one who has received his witness, has confirmed that God is truthful.
-whom God sent, to speak the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit in a measured way.
The Father loves the Son, and he has given all things into his hand. The one who believes in the Son has the life of the world to come. The one who disbelieves the Son, will not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
Thank you, dear Jesus, for all you have given me, for all you have taken away from me, for all you have left me.
After these things Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside and he stayed there with them and was baptizing And John also was baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there was plenty of water there, and (people) came and were being baptized f or John was not yet thrown into prison.
Then an argument arose from between disciples of John and a Judean about washing. And they came to John and said to him: ‘Rabbi, the one who was with you beyond the Jordan to whom you bore witness, Look! He is baptizing and they all are going to him.’ John replied: ‘No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven. You yourselves bear witness about me that I said: ‘I am not the Christ, but ‘ I have been sent before him’ The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, he is the one who stands and listens with great joy because of the the voice of the bridegroom. so this joy of mine is complete. He must increase and I decrease.’
O Lord Jesus Christ, stay beside me to defend me, within me to guide me, before me to lead me, and above me to bless me, that with you and in you, I may live, and move and have my being, for ever and ever. Amen.
(…so that everyone who believes in him might have future-age-life.)
For, to such an extent God loved the world that he gave the only son, so that everyone who believes might not perish but might have next-age-life.
For God did not send the Son into the world in order to pronounce judgement on the world but in order to save the world through him.
The one who believes in him will not be judged, but the one who does not believe has already been judged, because they have not already believed in the name of the only son of God.
And this is the judgement namely that the Light came into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the Light. For their deeds are evil. For everyone who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the Light, so that their works might not be made visible. But the one who does truth, comes to the L ight, so that their works might be made visible because they were done in God.
Eternal God and Fatther, you create us by your power, and redeem us by your love, guide and strengthen us by your Spirit, that we may give ourselves in love and service to one another and to you; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
(Jesus replied) Truly, truly, I say to you: what we speak of we know and what we bear witness to we have seen, but you all do not receive our witness. If we have spoken of earthly things, and you do not believe, how will you believe if I speak to you about heavenly things? And nobody has gone up into heaven except the one who has come down out of heaven: The Son of Man. And as Moses lifted the serpent in the wilderness, so it is necessary for the Son of Man to be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him might have future-age-life.
Lord God, you feed us with the living bread from heaven; you renew our faith, increase our hope, and strengthen our love.
Teach us to hunger for Christ who is the true and living bread, and to live by every word that comes from your mouth, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Now there was a man – one of the Pharisees, Nicodemus by name a leader of the Judeans. He came to him (Jesus) at night and said to him: ‘Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For nobody can d o these signs, which you are doing unless God was with him.’
Jesus replied: Truly, truly, I tell you unless someone is reborn from above they cannot see the Kingdom of God.’
Nicodemus said to him: ‘How can a (man) be born being an old person? He cannot enter the womb of his mother a second time and be born, can he?’ Jesus replied: Truly, truly, I tell you unless someone is born from ‘water and Spirit’ he cannot enter the Kingdom of God The one born from flesh is flesh but the one born from the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you all: “It is necessary to be reborn from above.” The wind blows were it wishes and you hear its sound but you do not know where it is coming from or where it goes. It is this way for all who have been reborn from above.
Nicodemus replied: How can these things be?
Jesus replied: You are ‘the teacher’ of Israel, but you do not know these things?
Eternal Light, shine into our hearts; Eternal Goodness, deliver us from evil; Eternal Power, be our support; Eternal Wisdom, scatter the darkness of our ignorance: That we may seek your face with all our heart and mind and soul and strength. Amen.
Then the Judeans replied: What sign do you show us, that you do these things? Jesus replied to them: Tear down this sanctuary and in three days I will raise it up. So the Judeans said 46 years the temple has been being built and you will raise it up in three days? -But he said that about the sanctuary of his body. So that when he was raised up from the dead people, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed in the scripture and the word which he said.
And now he was in Jerusalem at Passover during the Festival. Many believed in his name seeing the signs which he was doing. But Jesus did not trust himself to them because he knew all people and because he had no need for anyone to bear witness about anyone, For he knew what was in everyone.
Lord God, you feed us with the living bread from heaven; you renew our faith, increase our hope, and strengthen our love.
Teach us to hunger for Christ who is the true and living bread, and to live by every word that comes from your mouth, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.