²² But ^(A)be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. ²³ For ^(B)if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; ²⁴ for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. ²⁵ But ^(C)he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, ^(D)this one will be blessed in what he does.

^14 (A)You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.

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

I Never Knew You^(A)

²¹ “Not everyone who says to Me, ^(B)‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who ^(C)does the will of My Father in heaven.

¹² Because they ministered to them before their idols and ^(A)caused^[a] the house of Israel to fall into iniquity, therefore I have ^(B)raised My hand in an oath against them,” says the Lord God, “that they shall bear their iniquity.