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

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

¹⁷ Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do and fails to do it commits sin.^(A)

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)

Hearers and Doers

²⁴ “Everyone, then, who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.^{(A) 25} The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall because it had been founded on rock.

²⁷ I will put my spirit within you and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances.^(A)

¹⁴ Blessed are those who wash their robes,^[a] so that they will have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates.

⁴⁷ That slave who knew what his master wanted but did not prepare himself or do what was wanted will receive a severe beating.^{(A) 48} But the one who did not know and did what deserved a beating will receive a light beating. From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required, and from the one to whom much has been entrusted, even more will be demanded.^(B)

¹⁶ Moses did everything just as the Lord had commanded him.