John 13:17

If you understand this, you shall be blessed if you will do it.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

16Amen, amen, I say to you, the servant is not greater than his Lord, and the apostle is not greater than he who sent him.

18I am not speaking about all of you. I know those whom I have chosen. But this is so that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me shall lift up his heel against me.’

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Cross References

Genesis 6:22And so Noah did all things just as God had instructed him.

Ezekiel 36:27And I will place my Spirit in your midst. And I will act so that you may walk in my precepts and keep my judgments, and so that you may fulfill them.

Matthew 12:50For anyone who does the will of my Father, who is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

Luke 11:28Then he said, “Yes, but moreover: blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.”

John 15:14You are my friends, if you do what I instruct you.

Matthew Henry on John 13:2-18

Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet; Necessity of Obedience. 1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. 2 And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him; 3 Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God; 4 He riseth from… Read the whole commentary →

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