¹⁷ Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.^(A)

⁵⁰ For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven^(A) is my brother and sister and mother.”

²⁸ He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God^(A) and obey it.”^(B)

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

¹⁵ “If you love me, keep my commands.^(A)

²³ Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching.^(A) My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.^(B)

¹⁴ You are my friends^(A) if you do what I command.^(B)

Unity and Maturity in the Body of Christ

4 As a prisoner^(A) for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy^(B) of the calling^(C) you have received.

¹³ In the sight of God, who gives life to everything, and of Christ Jesus, who while testifying before Pontius Pilate^(A) made the good confession,^(B) I charge you^{(C) 14} to keep this command without spot or blame^(D) until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,^{(E) 15} which God will bring about in his own time^(F)—God, the blessed^(G) and only Ruler,^(H) the King of kings and Lord of lords,^{(I) 16} who alone is immortal^(J) and who lives in unapproachable light,^(K) whom no one has seen or can see.^(L) To him be honor and might forever. Amen.^(M)

²² Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.^{(A) 23} Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror ²⁴ and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. ²⁵ But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom,^(B) and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.^(C)