Catholic Wedding Readings: The Complete Official List

26And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.

27And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them.

28And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.

31And God saw all the things that he had made, and they were very good. And the evening and morning were the sixth day.

18And the Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a help like unto himself.

19And the Lord God having formed out of the ground all the beasts of the earth, and all the fowls of the air, brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: for whatsoever Adam called any living creature the same is its name.

20And Adam called all the beasts by their names, and all the fowls of the air, and all the cattle of the field: but for Adam there was not found a helper like himself.

21Then the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon Adam: and when he was fast asleep, he took one of his ribs, and filled up flesh for it.

22And the Lord God built the rib which he took from Adam into a woman: and brought her to Adam.

23And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.

24Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh.

48And falling down, I adored the Lord, blessing the Lord God of my master, Abraham, who hath brought me the straight way to take the daughter of my master's brother for his son.

49Wherefore, if you do according to mercy and truth with my master, tell me: but if it please you otherwise, tell me that also, that I may go to the right hand, or to the left.

50And Laban and Bathuel answered: The word hath proceeded from the Lord: we cannot speak any other thing to thee but his pleasure.

51Behold, Rebecca is before thee, take her and go thy way, and let her be the wife of thy master's son, as the Lord hath spoken.

58And they called her, and when she was come, they asked: Wilt thou go with this man? She said: I will go.

59So they sent her away, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his company.

60Wishing prosperity to their sister, and saying: Thou art our sister, mayst thou increase to thousands of thousands; and may thy seed possess the gates of their enemies.

61So Rebecca and her maids, being set upon camels, followed the man: who with speed returned to his master.

62At the same time, Isaac was walking along the way to the well which is called Of the living and the seeing: for he dwelt in the south country:

63And he was gone forth to meditate in the field, the day being now well spent: and when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw camels coming afar off.

64Rebecca also, when she saw Isaac, lighted off the camel,

65And said to the servant: Who is that man who cometh towards us along the field? And he said to her: That man is my master. But she quickly took her cloak, and covered herself.

66And the servant told Isaac all that he had done.

67Who brought her into the tent of Sara his mother, and took her to wife: and he loved her so much, that it moderated the sorrow which was occasioned by his mother's death.

7And Raguel went to him, and kissed him with tears and weeping upon his neck, said: A blessing be upon thee, my son, because thou art the son of a good and most virtuous man.

8And Anna his wife, and Sara their daughter wept.

9And after they had spoken, Raguel commanded a sheep to be killed, and a feast to be prepared. And when he desired them to sit down to dinner,

10Tobias said: I will not eat nor drink here this day, unless thou first grant me my petition, and promise to give me Sara thy daughter.

11Now when Raguel heard this he was afraid, knowing what had happened to those seven husbands, that went in unto her: and he began to fear lest it might happen to him also in like manner: and as he was in suspense, and gave no answer to his petition,

12The angel said to him: Be not afraid to give her to this man, for to him who feareth God is thy daughter due to be his wife: therefore another could not have her.

13Then Raguel said: I doubt not but God hath regarded my prayers and tears in his sight.

14And I believe he hath therefore made you come to me, that this maid might be married to one of her own kindred, according to the law of Moses: and now doubt not but I will give her to thee.

15And taking the right hand of his daughter, he gave it into the right hand of Tobias, saying: The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob be with you, and may he join you together, and fulfil his blessing in you.

16And taking paper they made a writing of the marriage.

17And afterwards they made merry, blessing God.

4Then Tobias exhorted the virgin, and said to her: Sara, arise, and let us pray to God to day, and to morrow, and the next day: because for these three nights we are joined to God: and when the third night is over, we will be in our own wedlock.

5For we are the children of saints, and we must not be joined together like heathens that know not God.

6So they both arose, and prayed earnestly both together that health might be given them.

7And Tobias said: Lord God of our fathers, may the heavens and the earth, and the sea, and the fountains, and the rivers, and all thy creatures that are in them, bless thee.

8Thou madest Adam of the slime of the earth, and gavest him Eve for a helper.

9And now, Lord, thou knowest, that not for fleshly lust do I take my sister to wife, but only for the love of posterity, in which thy name may be blessed for ever and ever.

10Sara also said: Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us, and let us grow old both together in health.

10Who shall find a valiant woman? far, and from the uttermost coasts is the price of her.

11The heart of her husband trusteth in her, and he shall have no need of spoils.

12She will render him good, and not evil all the days of her life.

13She hath sought wool and flax, and hath wrought by the counsel of her hands.

19She hath put out her hand to strong things, and her fingers have taken hold of the spindle.

20She hath opened her hand to the needy, and stretched out her hands to the poor.

30Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: the woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.

31Give her of the fruit of her hands: and let her works praise her in the gates.

8The voice of my beloved, behold he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping over the hills.

9My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart. Behold he standeth behind our wall, looking through the windows, looking through the lattices.

10Behold my beloved speaketh to me: Arise, make haste, my love, my dove, my beautiful one, and come.

14My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hollow places of the wall, shew me thy face, let thy voice sound in my ears: for thy voice is sweet, and thy face comely.

16My beloved to me, and I to him who feedeth among the lilies,

6Put me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy as hard as hell, the lamps thereof are fire and flames.

7Many waters cannot quench charity, neither can the floods drown it: if a man should give all the substance of his house for love, he shall despise it as nothing.

1Happy is the husband of a good wife: for the number of his years is double.

2A virtuous woman rejoiceth her husband, and shall fulfil the years of his life in peace.

3A good wife is a good portion, she shall be given in the portion of them that fear God, to a man for his good deeds.

4Rich or poor, if his heart is good, his countenance shall be cheerful at all times.

16The grace of a diligent woman shall delight her husband, and shall fat his bones.

17Her discipline is the gift of God.

18Such is a wise and silent woman, and there is nothing so much worth as a well instructed soul.

19A holy and shamefaced woman is grace upon grace.

20And no price is worthy of a continent soul.

21As the sun when it riseth to the world in the high places of God, so is the beauty of a good wife for the ornament of her house.

31Behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, and I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda:

32Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, the covenant which they made void, and I had dominion over them, saith the Lord.

33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my law in their bowels, and I will write it in their heart: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

34And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying: Know the Lord: for all shall know me from the least of them even to the greatest, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

12Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord: the people whom he hath chosen for his inheritance.

18Behold the eyes of the Lord are on them that fear him: and on them that hope in his mercy.

20Our soul waiteth for the Lord: for he is our helper and protector.

21For in him our heart shall rejoice: and in his holy name we have trusted.

22Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, as we have hoped in thee.

2I will bless the Lord at all times, his praise shall be always in my mouth.

3In the Lord shall my soul be praised: let the meek hear and rejoice.

4O magnify the Lord with me; and let us extol his name together.

5I sought the Lord, and he heard me; and he delivered me from all my troubles.

6Come ye to him and be enlightened: and your faces shall not be confounded.

7This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him: and saved him out of all his troubles.

8The angel of the Lord shall encamp round about them that fear him: and shall deliver them.

9O taste, and see that the Lord is sweet: blessed is the man that hopeth in him.

1For David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul: and let all that is within me bless his holy name.

2Bless the Lord, O my soul, and never forget all he hath done for thee.

8The Lord is compassionate and merciful: longsuffering and plenteous in mercy.

13As a father hath compassion on his children, so hath the Lord compassion on them that fear him:

17But the mercy of the Lord is from eternity and unto eternity upon them that fear him: And his justice unto children's children,

18To such as keep his covenant, And are mindful of his commandments to do them.

1Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord: he shall delight exceedingly in his commandments.

2His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the righteous shall be blessed.

3Glory and wealth shall be in his house: and his justice remaineth for ever and ever.

4To the righteous a light is risen up in darkness: he is merciful, and compassionate and just.

5Acceptable is the man that sheweth mercy and lendeth: he shall order his words with judgment:

6Because he shall not be moved for ever.

7The just shall be in everlasting remembrance: he shall not fear the evil hearing. His heart is ready to hope in the Lord:

8His heart is strengthened, he shall not be moved until he look over his enemies.

9He hath distributed, he hath given to the poor: his justice remaineth for ever and ever: his horn shall be exalted in glory.

1A gradual canticle. Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: that walk in his ways.

2For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.

3Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table.

4Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord.

5May the Lord bless thee out of Sion: and mayst thou see the good things of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

8The Lord is gracious and merciful: patient and plenteous in mercy.

9The Lord is sweet to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

10Let all thy works, O Lord, praise thee: and let thy saints bless thee.

15The eyes of all hope in thee, O Lord: and thou givest them meat in due season.

17The Lord is just in all his ways: and holy in all his works.

18The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him: to all that call upon him in truth.

1Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise ye him in the high places.

2Praise ye him, all his angels, praise ye him, all his hosts.

3Praise ye him, O sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars and light.

4Praise him, ye heavens of heavens: and let all the waters that are above the heavens

9Mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all cedars:

10Beasts and all cattle: serpents and feathered fowls:

11Kings of the earth and all people: princes and all judges of the earth:

12Young men and maidens: let the old with the younger, praise the name of the Lord:

13For his name alone is exalted.

14The praise of him is above heaven and earth: and he hath exalted the horn of his people. A hymn to all his saints to the children of Israel, a people approaching to him. Alleluia.

31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who is against us?

32He that spared not even his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how hath he not also, with him, given us all things?

33Who shall accuse against the elect of God? God is he that justifieth:

34Who is he that shall condemn? Christ Jesus that died: yea that is risen also again, who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

35Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? Or distress? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or danger? Or persecution? Or the sword?

37But in all these things we overcome, because of him that hath loved us.

38For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor might,

39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your reasonable service.

2And be not conformed to this world: but be reformed in the newness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and the acceptable and the perfect will of God.

9Let love be without dissimulation. Hating that which is evil, cleaving to that which is good,

10Loving one another with the charity of brotherhood: with honour preventing one another.

11In carefulness not slothful. In spirit fervent. Serving the Lord.

12Rejoicing in hope. Patient in tribulation. Instant in prayer.

13Communicating to the necessities of the saints. Pursuing hospitality.

14Bless them that persecute you: bless, and curse not.

15Rejoice with them that rejoice: weep with them that weep.

16Being of one mind one towards another. Not minding high things, but consenting to the humble. Be not wise in your own conceits.

17To no man rendering evil for evil. Providing good things, not only in the sight of God but also in the sight of all men.

18If it be possible, as much as is in you, have peace with all men.

1Now, we that are stronger ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves.

2Let every one of you Please his neighbour unto good, to edification.

3For Christ did not please himself: but, as it is written: The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me.

5Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be of one mind, one towards another, according to Jesus Christ:

6That with one mind and with one mouth you may glorify God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

7Wherefore, receive one another, as Christ also hath received you, unto the honour of God.

13Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing: that you may abound in hope and in the power of the Holy Ghost.

13Meat for the belly and the belly for the meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord: and the Lord for the body.

14Now God hath raised up the Lord and will raise us up also by his power.

15Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid!

17But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

18Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth is without the body: but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

19Or know you not that your members are the temple of the Holy Ghost, who is in you, whom you have from God: and you are not your own?

20For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and bear God in your body.

31But be zealous for the better gifts. And I shew unto you yet a more excellent way.

1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

2And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

3And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

4Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely, is not puffed up,

5Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil:

6Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth:

7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

8Charity never falleth away: whether prophecies shall be made void or tongues shall cease or knowledge shall be destroyed.

1I therefore, a prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called:

2With all humility and mildness, with patience, supporting one another in charity.

3Careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

4One body and one Spirit: as you are called in one hope of your calling.

5One Lord, one faith, one baptism.

6One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in us all.

2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness.

21Being subject one to another, in the fear of Christ.

22Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord:

23Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. He is the saviour of his body.

24Therefore as the church is subject to Christ: so also let the wives be to their husbands in all things.

25Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and delivered himself up for it:

26That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life:

27That he might present it to himself, a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

28So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

29For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ doth the church:

30Because we are members of him, body, of his flesh and of his bones.

31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother: and shall cleave to his wife. And they shall be two in one flesh.

32This is a great sacrament: but I speak in Christ and in the church.

33Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular love for his wife as himself: And let the wife fear her husband.

4Rejoice in the Lord always: again, I say, rejoice.

5Let your modesty be known to all men. The Lord is nigh.

6Be nothing solicitous: but in every thing, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God.

7And the peace of God, which surpasseth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

8For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline: think on these things.

9The things which you have both learned and received and heard and seen in me, these do ye: and the God of peace shall be with you.

12Put ye on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, the bowels of mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, patience:

13Bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if any have a complaint against another. Even as the Lord hath forgiven you, so do you also.

14But above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection.

15And let the peace of Christ rejoice in your hearts, wherein also you are called in one body: and be ye thankful.

16Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly: in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual canticles, singing in grace in your hearts to God.

17All whatsoever you do in word or in work, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

1Let the charity of the brotherhood abide in you.

2And hospitality do not forget: for by this some, being not aware of it, have entertained angels.

3Remember them that are in bands, as if you were bound with them: and them that labour, as being yourselves also in the body.

4Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

5Let your manners be without covetousness, contented with such things as you have. For he hath said: I will not leave thee: neither will I forsake thee.

6So that we may confidently say: The Lord is my helper: I will not fear what man shall do to me.

1In like manner also, let wives be subject to their husbands: that, if any believe not the word, they may be won without the word, by the conversation of the wives,

2Considering your chaste conversation with fear.

3Whose adorning, let it not be the outward plaiting of the hair, or the wearing of gold, or the putting on of apparel:

4But the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptibility of a quiet and a meek spirit which is rich in the sight of God.

5For after this manner heretofore, the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

6As Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters you are, doing well and not fearing any disturbance.

7Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel and as to the co-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered.

8And in fine, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, being lovers of the brotherhood, merciful, modest, humble:

9Not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing: for unto this are you called, that you may inherit a blessing.

18My little children, let us not love in word nor in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

19In this we know that we are of the truth and in his sight shall persuade our hearts.

20For if our heart reprehend us, God is greater than our heart and knoweth all things.

21Dearly beloved, if our heart do not reprehend us, we have confidence towards God.

22And whatsoever we shall ask, we shall receive of him: because we keep his commandments and do those things which are pleasing in his sight.

23And this is his commandment: That we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as he hath given commandment unto us.

24And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in him. And in this we know that he abideth in us by the Spirit which he hath given us.

7Dearly beloved, let us love one another: for charity is of God. And every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God.

8He that loveth not knoweth not God: for God is charity.

9By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by him.

10In this is charity: not as though we had loved God, but because he hath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.

11My dearest, if God hath so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

12No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us: and his charity is perfected in us.

1After these things, I heard as it were the voice of much people in heaven, saying: Alleluia. Salvation and glory and power is to our God.

5And a voice came out from the throne, saying: Give praise to our God, all ye his servants: and you that fear him, little and great.

6And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of great thunders, saying: Alleluia: for the Lord our God, the Almighty, hath reigned.

7Let us be glad and rejoice and give glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb is come: and his wife hath prepared herself.

8And it is granted to her that she should clothe herself with fine linen, glittering and white. For the fine linen are the justifications of saints.

9And he said to me: Write: Blessed are they that are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith to me: These words of God are true.

1And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain, and when he was set down, his disciples came unto him.

2And opening his mouth he taught them, saying:

3Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

4Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess the land.

5Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

6Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill.

7Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

8Blessed are the clean of heart: they shall see God.

9Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

10Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

11Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake:

12Be glad and rejoice for your reward is very great in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets that were before you.

13You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt lose its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing anymore but to be cast out, and to be trodden on by men.

14You are the light of the world. A city seated on a mountain cannot be hid.

15Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house.

16So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

21Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.

24Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock,

25And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded on a rock.

26And every one that heareth these my words and doth them not, shall be like a foolish man that built his house upon the sand,

27And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall thereof.

28And it came to pass when Jesus had fully ended these words, the people were in admiration at his doctrine.

29For he was teaching them as one having power, and not as the scribes and Pharisees.

3And there came to him the Pharisees tempting him, saying: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

4Who answering, said to them: Have ye not read, that he who made man from the beginning, made them male and female? And he said:

5For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh.

6Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.

35And one of them, a doctor of the law, asked him, tempting him:

36Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

37Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with thy whole mind.

38This is the greatest and the first commandment.

39And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

40On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets.

6But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.

7For this cause, a man shall leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife.

8And they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh.

9What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.

1And the third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee: and the mother of Jesus was there.

2And Jesus also was invited, and his disciples, to the marriage.

3And the wine failing, the mother of Jesus saith to him: They have no wine.

4And Jesus saith to her: Woman, what is that to me and to thee? My hour is not yet come.

5His mother saith to the waiters: Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye.

6Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three measures apiece.

7Jesus saith to them: Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.

8And Jesus saith to them: Draw out now and carry to the chief steward of the feast. And they carried it.

9And when the chief steward had tasted the water made wine and knew not whence it was, but the waiters knew who had drawn the water: the chief steward calleth the bridegroom,

10And saith to him: Every man at first setteth forth good wine, and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse. But thou hast kept the good wine until now.

11This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.

9As the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you. Abide in my love.

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

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

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

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

13Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

14You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you.

15I will not now call you servants: for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth. But I have called you friends. because all things, whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you.

16You have not chosen me: but I have chosen you; and have appointed you, that you should go and should bring forth fruit; and your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

20And not for them only do I pray, but for them also who through their word shall believe in me.

21That they all may be one, as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

22And the glory which thou hast given me, I have given to them: that, they may be one, as we also are one.

23I in them, and thou in me: that they may be made perfect in one: and the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them, as thou hast also loved me.

24Father, I will that where I am, they also whom thou hast given me may be with me: that they may see my glory which thou hast given me, because thou hast loved me before the creation of the world.

25Just Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee. And these have known that thou hast sent me.

26And I have made known thy name to them and will make it known: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.