Christian Standard Bible
John 13:17
17If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.
John 13:17 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
- New International Version (NIV)Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
- English Standard Version (ESV)If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
- New King James Version (NKJV)If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
Context of John 13:17
15For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done for you. 16“Truly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his master, and a messenger is not greater than the one who sent him. If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them. 18“I’m not speaking about all of you; I know those I have chosen. But the Scripture must be fulfilled: The one who eats my bread has raised his heel against me. 19I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am he.
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Cross-references for John 13:17
- John 15:14You are my friends if you do what I command you.
- Genesis 6:22And Noah did this. He did everything that God had commanded him.
- Exodus 40:16Moses did everything just as the Lord had commanded him.
- Psalms 19:11In addition, your servant is warned by them, and in keeping them there is an abundant reward.
- Psalms 119:1How happy are those whose way is blameless, who walk according to the Lord’s instruction!
- Ezekiel 36:27I will place my Spirit within you and cause you to follow my statutes and carefully observe my ordinances.
- Matthew 7:24“Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
- Matthew 12:50For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
- Matthew 22:38This is the greatest and most important command.
- Luke 12:47And that servant who knew his master’s will and didn’t prepare himself or do it will be severely beaten.
- 2 Corinthians 5:14For the love of Christ compels us, since we have reached this conclusion, that one died for all, and therefore all died.
- Galatians 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision accomplishes anything; what matters is faith working through love.
- Hebrews 11:7By faith Noah, after he was warned about what was not yet seen and motivated by godly fear, built an ark to deliver his family. By faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
- James 1:25But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who works — this person will be blessed in what he does.
- James 2:20Senseless person! Are you willing to learn that faith without works is useless?
- James 4:17So it is sin to know the good and yet not do it.
Commentaries on John 13:17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17If ye know these things, happy, etc. - True happiness consists in the knowledge of God, and in obedience to him. A man is not happy because he knows much; but because he receives much of the Divine nature, and is, in all his conduct, conformed to the Divine will. "They who have read many books (says Menu) are more exalted than such as have seldom studied; they who retain what they have read, than forgetful readers; they who fully understand, than such as…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-38The setting is the final Passover meal of Jesus on Thursday evening. During this meal, Judas Iscariot betrays Jesus. John does not describe the meal itself like the Synoptic Gospels do (Matthew 26:17–29; Mark 14:12–25; Luke 22:7–20; see also 1 Corinthians 11:23–26). John focuses on other activities at the event, such as: the foot washing (John 13:1–17), Judas’s betrayal (13:18–30), and the prediction of Peter’s denials (13:31–38).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 16-1716-17. The servant is not greater than his lord, &c.--an oft-repeated saying (Mt 10:24, &c.). If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them--a hint that even among real Christians the doing of such things would come lamentably short of the knowing.Read the comment
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Commentaries on John 13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Catena Aurea
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- John Lightfoot Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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