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If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
John 13:17 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
  • BSB If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
  • NKJV If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
  • NASB If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.
  • NLT Now that you know these things, God will bless you for doing them.

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 18

  • Luke 11:28But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
  • Jas 4:17To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
  • Jas 1:25But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
  • Matt 7:24–25“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.
  • Exod 40:16Moses did so. According to all that Yahweh commanded him, so he did.
  • Luke 12:47–48That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
  • Ezek 36:27I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.
  • Rev 22:14Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
  • Ps 19:11Moreover by them is your servant warned. In keeping them there is great reward.
  • Jas 2:20–24But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
  • Ps 119:1–5ALEPH Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.
  • Heb 11:7–8By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
  • Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
  • Gen 6:22Thus Noah did. He did all that God commanded him.
  • Matt 12:50For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
  • John 15:14You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
  • 2 Cor 5:14–15For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
  • Matt 22:38–41This is the first and great commandment.

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