John 13:17

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Summary

John 13:17

If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

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Happy

You are my friends if you keep on doing what I command you.

So Noah did this; according to all that God commanded him, that is what he did.

Thus Moses did; in accordance with all that the Lord commanded him, so he did.

Moreover, by them Your servant is warned [reminded, illuminated, and instructed];
In keeping them there is great reward.

How blessed and favored by God are those whose way is blameless [those with personal integrity, the upright, the guileless],
Who walk in the law [and who are guided by the precepts and revealed will] of the Lord.

I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My ordinances and do them.

“So everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, will be like a wise man [a far-sighted, practical, and sensible man] who built his house on the rock.

For whoever does the will of My Father who is in heaven [by believing in Me, and following Me] is My brother and sister and mother.”

This is the first and greatest commandment.

And that servant who knew his master’s will, and yet did not get ready or act in accord with his will, will be beaten with many lashes [of the whip],

For the love of Christ controls and compels us, because we have concluded this, that One died for all, therefore all died;

For [if we are] in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but only faith activated and expressed and working through love.

By faith [with confidence in God and His word] Noah, being warned by God about events not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his family. By this [act of obedience] he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness which comes by faith.

But he who looks carefully into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and faithfully abides by it, not having become a [careless] listener who forgets but an active doer [who obeys], he will be blessed and favored by God in what he does [in his life of obedience].

But are you willing to recognize, you foolish [spiritually shallow] person, that faith without [good] works is useless?

So any person who knows what is right to do but does not do it, to him it is sin.

Blessed (happy, prosperous, to be admired) are those who wash their robes [in the blood of Christ by believing and trusting in Him—the righteous who do His commandments], so that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the city.

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the blessing, if you listen to and obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I am commanding you today;

“Why do you call Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not practice what I tell you?

But He said, “On the contrary, blessed (happy, favored by God) are those who hear the word of God and continually observe it.”

So any person who knows what is right to do but does not do it, to him it is sin.