⁴⁷ Everyone who comes to me and gives ear to my words and does them, I will make clear to you what he is like:

²² But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.

²³ Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a glass;

²⁴ For after looking at himself he goes away, and in a short time he has no memory of what he was like.

²⁵ But he who goes on looking into the true law which makes him free, being not a hearer without memory but a doer putting it into effect, this man will have a blessing on his acts.

²⁸ But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.

²⁴ Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock;

²⁵ And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house, but it was not moved; because it was based on the rock.

²⁶ And everyone to whom my words come and who does them not, will be like a foolish man who made his house on sand;

²⁷ And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.

¹⁷ The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

⁷ To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:

⁸ But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath,

⁹ Trouble and sorrow on all whose works are evil, to the Jew first and then to the Greek;

¹⁰ But glory and honour and peace to all whose works are good, to the Jew first and then to the Greek:

¹⁵ If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.

⁵ While he was still talking, a bright cloud came over them: and a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased; give ear to him.

⁹ And when he had been made complete, he became the giver of eternal salvation to all those who are under his orders;

⁴ To whom you come, as to a living stone, not honoured by men, but of great and special value to God;

¹⁰ For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall:

²⁹ If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.

⁷ My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;

¹⁴ A blessing on those whose robes are washed, so that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may go in by the doors into the town.

²⁸ Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.

²⁹ Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls;

³ Give ear, and come to me, take note with care, so that your souls may have life: and I will make an eternal agreement with you, even the certain mercies of David.

⁹ Even as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever in my love.

¹⁰ If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love.

¹¹ I have said these things to you so that I may have joy in you and so that your joy may be complete.

¹² This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.

¹³ Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends.

¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.

²¹ He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.

²² Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, How is it that you will let yourself be seen clearly by us and not by the world?

²³ Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.

²⁴ He who has no love for me does not keep my words; and the word which you are hearing is not my word but the Father's who sent me.

¹⁷ If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.

⁸ And some falling on good earth, came up and gave fruit a hundred times as much. And with these words he said in a loud voice, He who has ears, let him give ear.

¹³ And those on the rock are those who with joy give hearing to the word; but having no root, they have faith for a time, and when the test comes they give up.

²⁶ And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.

⁴⁰ And still you have no desire to come to me so that you may have life.

³⁵ And this was the answer of Jesus: I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be in need of food, and he who has faith in me will never be in need of drink.

³⁷ Whatever the Father gives to me will come to me; and I will not send away anyone who comes to me.

⁴⁴ No man is able to come to me if the Father who sent me does not give him the desire to come: and I will take him up from the dead on the last day.

⁴⁵ The writings of the prophets say, And they will all have teaching from God. Everyone whose ears have been open to the teaching of the Father comes to me.

⁵² The Jews said to him, Now we are certain that you have an evil spirit. Abraham is dead, and the prophets are dead; and you say, If a man keeps my word he will never see death.

²⁷ His answer was: I have said it before, but your ears were shut: why would you have me say it again? is it your desire to become his disciples?

²⁸ And they were angry with him and said, You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

⁵⁰ For whoever does the pleasure of my Father in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.

²⁷ My sheep give ear to my voice, and I have knowledge of them, and they come after me: