John 15:14-15 (KJV)
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Matthew 5:48 (KJV)
- To pray daily using the Book of Common Prayer at times appointed, unless there be a just and unfeigned cause to the contrary.
- To keep the Fasting Days of the Book of Common Prayer with devotion and abstinence. (BCP, lvi)
- To be accountable for my life before God. To seek the advice and counsel of a learned and discreet friend.
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
1 Peter 2:24 (KJV)
… whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
Matthew 10:38
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness.
Colossians 3:1-5 (KJV)
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
2 Corinthians 11:14 (KJV)
And the Spirit immediately drove [Jesus] out into the wilderness. He was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels waited on him.
Mark 1:12-13
Old Testament
He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
Song of Songs, 2:4 (KJV)
… wait upon me: for my hope hath been in thee.
Psalm 25:20 (BCP)
this solitary life 