O Lord, I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of your maidservant. You have loosed my bonds.
Turn to me and be gracious to me; give your strength to your servant, and save the son of your maidservant.
And in your steadfast love you will cut off my enemies, and you will destroy all the adversaries of my soul, for I am your servant.
I am your servant; give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies!
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings.
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.
For this very night there stood before me an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I worship,
If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
For your servant’s sake, O Lord, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.