KJV King James Version
If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
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John 13:17
If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
WEB World English Bible
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
ASV American Standard Version
If ye know these things, blessed are ye if ye do them.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
if these things ye have known, happy are ye, if ye may do them;
Surrounding context — John 13
14 If I then, [your] Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.
15 For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
16 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
17 If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.
19 Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am [he].
20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
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Luke 11:28But he said, Yea rather, blessed [are] they that hear the word of God, and keep it.James 4:17Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin.James 1:25But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.Matthew 7:24-25Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:Ezekiel 36:27And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do [them].Exodus 40:16Thus did Moses: according to all that the LORD commanded him, so did he.Luke 12:47-48And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not [himself], neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many [stripes].Psalm 19:11Moreover by them is thy servant warned: [and] in keeping of them [there is] great reward.Revelation 22:14Blessed [are] they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.Psalm 119:1-5ALEPH. Blessed [are] the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.Hebrews 11:7-8By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.James 2:20-24But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?Genesis 6:22Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.Matthew 12:50For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.Galatians 5:6For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.John 15:14Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.2 Corinthians 5:14-15For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:Matthew 22:38-41This is the first and great commandment.
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