Saints Nereus and Achilleus, Martyrs/Saint Pancras, Martyr

28Take care of yourselves and of the entire flock, over which the Holy Spirit has stationed you as Bishops to rule the Church of God, which he has purchased by his own blood. 29I know that after my departure ravenous wolves will enter among you, not sparing the flock. 30And from among yourselves, men will rise up, speaking perverse things in order to entice disciples after them. 31Because of this, be vigilant, retaining in memory that throughout three years I did not cease, night and day, with tears, to admonish each and every one of you. 32And now, I commend you to God and to the Word of his grace. He has the power to build up, and to give an inheritance to all who are sanctified. 33I have coveted neither silver and gold, nor apparel, 34as you yourselves know. For that which was needed by me and by those who are with me, these hands have provided. 35I have revealed all things to you, because by laboring in this way, it is necessary to support the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ” 36And when he had said these things, kneeling down, he prayed with all of them. 37Then a great weeping occurred among them all. And, falling upon the neck of Paul, they kissed him, 38being grieved most of all over the word which he had said, that they would never see his face again. And they brought him to the ship.

29Command by your virtue, O God. Confirm in this place, O God, what you have wrought in us.

30Before your temple in Jerusalem, kings will offer gifts to you.

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33Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth. Sing psalms to the Lord. Sing psalms to God.

34He ascends, up to the heaven of the heavens, toward the east. Behold, he will utter his voice, the voice of virtue.

35Give glory to God beyond Israel. His magnificence and his virtue is in the clouds.

36God is wonderful in his saints. The God of Israel himself will give virtue and strength to his people. Blessed is God.

11And though I am not in the world, these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Father most holy, preserve them in your name, those whom you have given to me, so that they may be one, even as we are one. 12While I was with them, I preserved them in your name. I have guarded those whom you have given to me, and not one of them is lost, except the son of perdition, so that the Scripture may be fulfilled. 13And now I am coming to you. But I am speaking these things in the world, so that they may have the fullness of my joy within themselves. 14I have given them your word, and the world has hated them. For they are not of the world, just as I, too, am not of the world. 15I am not praying that you would take them out of the world, but that you would preserve them from evil. 16They are not of the world, just as I also am not of the world. 17Sanctify them in truth. Your word is truth. 18Just as you have sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19And it is for them that I sanctify myself, so that they, too, may be sanctified in truth.