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

²⁸ But he said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it."

²⁴ "Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

²⁵ The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock.

²⁵ But he who looks into the perfect law, the law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

²⁷ I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.

¹⁷ To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.

²⁰ But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

²¹ Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

²² You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected;

²³ and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called the friend of God.

²⁴ You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.

⁷ By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

⁸ By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

¹⁵ He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

⁴⁷ That servant, who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,

⁴⁸ but he who didn't know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whoever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

³⁸ This is the first and great commandment.

³⁹ A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

⁴⁰ The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."

⁴¹ Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,

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

¹ > Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, Who walk according to Yahweh's law.

² Blessed are those who keep his statutes, Who seek him with their whole heart.

³ Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways.

⁴ You have commanded your precepts, That we should fully obey them.

⁵ Oh that my ways were steadfast To obey your statutes!

¹¹ Moreover by them is your servant warned. In keeping them there is great reward.

¹⁶ Thus did Moses: according to all that Yahweh commanded him, so he did.

¹⁴ Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

²² Thus Noah did. According to all that God commanded him, so he did.