¹⁴ “Blessed are those who wash their robes,^(A) that they may have the right to the tree of life^(B) and may go through the gates^(C) into the city.^(D)

¹¹ “Blessed are you when people insult you,^(L) persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.^{(M) 12} Rejoice and be glad,^(N) because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.^(O)

²¹ Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me.^(A) The one who loves me will be loved by my Father,^(B) and I too will love them and show myself to them.”

²² Then Judas^(C) (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”^(D)

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

⁶ David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the one to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

⁹ Is this blessedness only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised?^(B) We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness.^(C)

²³ And this is his command: to believe^(A) in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ,^(B) and to love one another as he commanded us.^{(C) 24} The one who keeps God’s commands^(D) lives in him,^(E) and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.^(F)

²³ And this is his command: to believe^(A) in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ,^(B) and to love one another as he commanded us.^{(C) 24} The one who keeps God’s commands^(D) lives in him,^(E) and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.^(F)