²⁵ But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act—they will be blessed in their doing.^(A)

²⁸ But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it!”^(A)

¹⁷ Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.^{(A) 18} And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit.^(B)

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

¹⁶ As servants of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evil.^(A)

¹² So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty.^(A)

5 ¹ For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.^(A)

⁴⁷ I will show you what someone is like who comes to me, hears my words, and acts on them.^{(A) 48} That one is like a man building a house who dug deeply and laid the foundation on rock; when a flood arose, the river burst against that house but could not shake it because it had been well built.^{[a] 49} But the one who hears and does not act is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river burst against it, it quickly collapsed, and great was the ruin of that house.”