John 13:17
Good News Translation
Now that you know this truth, how happy you will be if you put it into practice!

New Revised Standard Version
If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

Contemporary English Version
You know these things, and God will bless you, if you do them.

New American Bible
If you understand this, blessed are you if you do it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If you know these things, you shall be blessed if you do them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If you know these things, you shall be blessed if you do them.

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John 15:14 You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you.

Genesis 6:22 And Noe did all things which God commanded him.

Exodus 40:16 And Moses did all that the Lord had commanded.

Psalm 19:11 For thy servant keepeth them, and in keeping them there is a great reward.

Psalm 119:1-5 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. . . .

Ezekiel 36:27 And I will put my spirit in the midst of you: and I will cause you to walk in my commandments, and to keep my judgments, and do them.

Matthew 7:24,25 Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock, . . .

Matthew 12:50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father, that is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Matthew 22:38-41 This is the greatest and the first commandment. . . .

Luke 12:47,48 And that servant, who knew the will of his lord and prepared not himself and did not according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. . . .

2 Corinthians 5:14,15 For the charity of Christ presseth us: judging this, that if one died for all, then all were dead. . . .

Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision: but faith that worketh by Charity.

Hebrews 11:7,8 By faith Noe, having received an answer concerning those things which as yet were not seen, moved with fear, framed the ark for the saving of his house: by the which he condemned the world and was instituted heir of the justice which is by faith. . . .

James 1:25 But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work: this man shall be blessed in his deed.

James 2:20-24 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? . . .

James 4:17 To him therefore who knoweth to do good and doth it not, to him it is sin.

Revelation 22:14 Blessed are they that wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb: that they may have a right to the tree of life and may enter in by the gates into the city.

Context
Jesus Washes His Disciples' Feet
16Amen, amen, I say to you: The servant is not greater than his lord: neither is the apostle greater than he that sent him. 17If you know these things, you shall be blessed if you do them. 18I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen. But that the scripture may be fulfilled: He that eateth bread with me shall lift up his heel against me,…
Cross References
Proverbs 29:18
When prophecy shall fail, the people shall be scattered abroad: but he that keepeth the law, is blessed.

Jeremiah 11:6
And the Lord said to me: Proclaim aloud all these words in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear ye the words of the covenant, and do them:

Matthew 7:24
Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock,

Luke 11:28
But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.

Romans 2:13
For not the hearers of the law are just before God: but the doers of the law shall be justified.

James 1:25
But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work: this man shall be blessed in his deed.

John 13:16
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