John 13:17

If you know all this, blessed are you if you act accordingly.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16In most solemn truth I tell you that a servant is not superior to his master, nor is a messenger superior to him who sent him.

18I am not speaking of all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but things are as they are in order that the Scripture may be fulfilled, which says, `He who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.'

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Cross References

Matthew 12:50To obey my Father who is in Heaven--that is to be my brother and my sister and my mother."

Luke 11:28"Nay rather," He replied, "they are blessed who hear God's Message and carefully keep it."

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