John 13:17 Cross References - NSB

¹⁷ »If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

²² Noah did everything exactly as God commanded him.

¹⁶ Moses did everything just as Jehovah commanded.

¹¹ They warn your servant. There is a great reward in following them.

¹ Blessed are those whose way is blameless. They walk in the law of Jehovah. ² Blessed are those who obey his written word. They seek him with all their heart. ³ They also do no unrighteousness. They walk in his ways. ⁴ You have ordained your precepts that we should keep them diligently. ⁵ Oh that my ways may be established to keep your statutes!

²⁷ »I will put my Spirit in you. I will enable you to live by my Laws, and you will obey my rules.

²⁴ »Everyone who hears my words, and does them is like a wise man that builds his house on a rock. ²⁵ »The rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house; and it did not fall. It was built on a solid rock foundation.

⁵⁰ »For everyone who does the will of my Father who is in heaven is my brother, and sister, and mother.«

³⁸ »This is the greatest and first commandment. ³⁹ »The second like it is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ⁴⁰ »The law and the prophets are based on these two commandments.« ⁴¹ The Pharisees were gathered together, so Jesus asked them a question.

²⁸ He replied: »More blessed are those who hear the word of God and obey it.«

⁴⁷ »The unfaithful servant who knew what his master wanted and did not do it will be beaten. ⁴⁸ »He who did not know and did things unacceptable will receive a lesser punishment. To whom much is given, much will be required and to whom they commit much they will demand even more.

¹⁴ »You are my friends if you do the things that I command you.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ compels us to judge, that one died for all and therefore all died. ¹⁵ He died for all that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for their sakes and rose again.

⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision means anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

⁷ By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not seen as yet, moved with godly respect. He prepared an ark to save his house. By his faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that is according to faith. ⁸ By faith, when Abraham was called, he obeyed. He went to a place that he was to receive for an inheritance. He went even though he did not know where he was going.

¹⁷ He that knows to do good, and does not do it, to him it is sin.

²⁵ But he who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and so continues, being not a hearer who forgets but a doer who works, this man will be blessed in what he does.

²⁰ Are you willing to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is useless (barren) (lifeless)? ²¹ Was Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? ²² You see that faith acted with his works, and works made faith perfect (complete). ²³ The scripture was fulfilled which says: »Abraham believed Jehovah and it was reckoned (imputed) (considered) (credited) to him for righteousness.« He was called »Jehovah’s friend« (Genesis 15:6) ( Isaiah 41:8). ²⁴ You see that a man is justified (declared and pronounced righteous) by works, and not by faith alone.

¹⁴ »'Blessed are those who obey his commandments. They have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates of the city.