²¹ But He answered and said to them, “My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.”

²² But ^(A)be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

^17 (A)If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

Keeping the Word

²⁷ And it happened, as He spoke these things, that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, ^(A)“Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which nursed You!”

²⁸ But He said, ^(B)“More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

¹¹ Beloved, ^(A)do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. ^(B)He who does good is of God, ^[a]but he who does evil has not seen ^(C)God.

^29 (A)If you know that He is righteous, you know that ^(B)everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him.

¹¹ For ^(A)both He who ^[a]sanctifies and those who are being sanctified ^(B)are all of one, for which reason ^(C)He is not ashamed to call them brethren, ¹² saying:

¹³ And again:

And again:

^14 (A)You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. ¹⁵ No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, ^(B)for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.