John 13:17

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John 13:17

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

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ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;

And Noah doth according to all that God hath commanded him; so hath he done.

And Moses doth according to all that Jehovah hath commanded him; so he hath done.

Also -- Thy servant is warned by them, 'In keeping them is a great reward.'

Aleph. O the happiness of those perfect in the way, They are walking in the law of Jehovah,

And My Spirit I give in your midst, And I have done this, so that in My statutes ye walk, And My judgments ye keep, and have done them.

'Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock;

for whoever may do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.'

this is a first and great command;

'And that servant, who having known his lord's will, and not having prepared, nor having gone according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes,

for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,

for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working.

By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, did prepare an ark to the salvation of his house, through which he did condemn the world, and of the righteousness according to faith he became heir.

and he who did look into the perfect law -- that of liberty, and did continue there, this one -- not a forgetful hearer becoming, but a doer of work -- this one shall be happy in his doing.

And dost thou wish to know, O vain man, that the faith apart from the works is dead?

to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.

'Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city;

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the blessing, when ye hearken unto the commands of Jehovah your God, which I am commanding you to-day;

'And why do ye call me, Lord, Lord, and do not what I say?

And he said, 'Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping it!'

to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.