John 13:17

Contemporary English Version

You know these things, and God will bless you, if you do them.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
If you know these things, great blessings will be yours if you do them.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
If ye vnderstonde these thinges happy are ye yf ye do them.

Hebrew Names Version
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

International Standard Version
If you understand these things, how blessed you are if you put them into practice!James 1:25;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
"If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

New Century Version
If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

Update Bible Version
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

Webster's Bible Translation
If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

English Standard Version
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

World English Bible
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
If ye know these things, happy are ye, if ye do them. I speak not of you all:

Weymouth's New Testament
If you know all this, blessed are you if you act accordingly.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If ye witen these thingis, ye schulen be blessid, if ye doen hem.

English Revised Version
If ye know these things, blessed are ye if ye do them.

Berean Standard Bible
If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

Amplified Bible
"If you know these things, you are blessed [happy and favored by God] if you put them into practice [and faithfully do them].

American Standard Version
If ye know these things, blessed are ye if ye do them.

Bible in Basic English
If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.

Complete Jewish Bible
If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

Darby Translation
If ye know these things, blessed are ye if ye do them.

Etheridge Translation
If these you know, happy are you if you do them.

Murdock Translation
If ye know these things, happy will ye be if ye do them.

King James Version (1611)
If yee know these things, happy are ye if ye doe them.

New Living Translation
Now that you know these things, God will bless you for doing them.

New Life Bible
If you know these things, you will be happy if you do them.

New Revised Standard
If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

Geneva Bible (1587)
If ye know these things, blessed are ye, if ye doe them.

George Lamsa Translation
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If, these things, ye know, happy, are ye, if ye be doing them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If you know these things, you shall be blessed if you do them.

Revised Standard Version
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Yf ye knowe these thynges, happy are ye, yf ye do them.

Good News Translation
Now that you know this truth, how happy you will be if you put it into practice!

Christian Standard Bible®
If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

King James Version
If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

Lexham English Bible
If you understand these things, you are blessed if you do them.

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

Young's Literal Translation
if these things ye have known, happy are ye, if ye may do them;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf ye knowe these thinges, blessed are ye yf ye do them.

Mace New Testament (1729)
if ye comprehend these things, happy are ye if ye put them in practice.

THE MESSAGE
Washing His Disciples' Feet Just before the Passover Feast, Jesus knew that the time had come to leave this world to go to the Father. Having loved his dear companions, he continued to love them right to the end. It was suppertime. The Devil by now had Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot, firmly in his grip, all set for the betrayal. Jesus knew that the Father had put him in complete charge of everything, that he came from God and was on his way back to God. So he got up from the supper table, set aside his robe, and put on an apron. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the feet of the disciples, drying them with his apron. When he got to Simon Peter, Peter said, "Master, you wash my feet?" Jesus answered, "You don't understand now what I'm doing, but it will be clear enough to you later." Peter persisted, "You're not going to wash my feet—ever!" Jesus said, "If I don't wash you, you can't be part of what I'm doing." "Master!" said Peter. "Not only my feet, then. Wash my hands! Wash my head!" Jesus said, "If you've had a bath in the morning, you only need your feet washed now and you're clean from head to toe. My concern, you understand, is holiness, not hygiene. So now you're clean. But not every one of you." (He knew who was betraying him. That's why he said, "Not every one of you.") After he had finished washing their feet, he took his robe, put it back on, and went back to his place at the table. Then he said, "Do you understand what I have done to you? You address me as ‘Teacher' and ‘Master,' and rightly so. That is what I am. So if I, the Master and Teacher, washed your feet, you must now wash each other's feet. I've laid down a pattern for you. What I've done, you do. I'm only pointing out the obvious. A servant is not ranked above his master; an employee doesn't give orders to the employer. If you understand what I'm telling you, act like it—and live a blessed life.

New English Translation
If you understand these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

New King James Version
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Now that you know the circle, go ride it and gather and the Boss will bless your socks off."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

Legacy Standard Bible
If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

Contextual Overview

¹ It was before Passover, and Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and to return to the Father. He had always loved his followers in this world, and he loved them to the very end. ² Even before the evening meal started, the devil had made Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, decide to betray Jesus. ³ Jesus knew that he had come from God and would go back to God. He also knew that the Father had given him complete power. ⁴ So during the meal Jesus got up, removed his outer garment, and wrapped a towel around his waist. ⁵ He put some water into a large bowl. Then he began washing his disciples' feet and drying them with the towel he was wearing. ⁶ But when he came to Simon Peter, that disciple asked, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?" ⁷ Jesus answered, "You don't really know what I am doing, but later you will understand." ⁸ "You will never wash my feet!" Peter replied. "If I don't wash you," Jesus told him, "you don't really belong to me." ⁹ Peter said, "Lord, don't wash just my feet. Wash my hands and my head." ¹⁰ Jesus answered, "People who have bathed and are clean all over need to wash just their feet. And you, my disciples, are clean, except for one of you."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

happy: John 15:14, Genesis 6:22, Exodus 40:16, Psalms 19:11, Psalms 119:1-5, Ezekiel 36:27, Matthew 7:24, Matthew 7:25, Matthew 12:50, Matthew 22:38-41, Luke 12:47, Luke 12:48, 2 Corinthians 5:14, 2 Corinthians 5:15, Galatians 5:6, Hebrews 11:7, Hebrews 11:8, James 1:25, James 2:20-24, James 4:17, Revelation 22:14

Reciprocal: Genesis 7:5 - all that Exodus 12:50 - as the Lord Leviticus 20:8 - And ye Deuteronomy 11:27 - General Joshua 1:8 - observe 1 Kings 13:9 - For 1 Chronicles 14:16 - did as God Ezra 7:10 - to do it Psalms 1:1 - Blessed Psalms 15:5 - He that doeth Psalms 106:3 - Blessed Psalms 111:10 - do his commandments Psalms 119:48 - unto thy Proverbs 29:18 - but Isaiah 56:2 - Blessed Jeremiah 6:16 - and walk Jeremiah 11:6 - Hear Ezekiel 18:11 - that Ezekiel 43:11 - and do Daniel 5:22 - though Matthew 11:29 - my Luke 6:47 - doeth Luke 8:21 - which Luke 11:28 - General Romans 2:18 - knowest Philippians 4:9 - do Hebrews 10:26 - after James 1:22 - be

Cross-References

Genesis 13:15
I will give you and your family all the land you can see. It will be theirs forever!

Genesis 13:17
Now walk back and forth across the land, because I am giving it to you.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If ye know these things,.... The duties they owed to him, and one another; those kind offices of love and respect to each other; the humility, condescension, and brotherly love, which ought to be in them, and of which he had given them an example:

happy are ye if ye do them; for the bare theory, or a mere speculative knowledge of these things, is not sufficient; not he that knows and does not, but he that knows and does his master's will, is blessed; he is blessed with communion with his Lord, and shall hereafter enter into his joy, with "well done good and faithful servant". There is an happiness "in" doing well, and which follows "on" it, though not "for" it, in a way of merit; on the other hand, persons who know and do not, are very unhappy; the Jews have a saying a,

"twvel alv dmlhv, "he that learns but not to do", it would have been better for him, if he had never been created; and says R. Jochanan, he that learns but not to do, it would have been better for him if his secundine had been turned upon his face, and he had never come into the world.''

a Hieros. Beracot, fol. 3. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The servant is not ... - This was universally true, and this they were to remember always, that they were to manifest the same spirit that he did, and that they were to expect the same treatment from the world. See the notes at Matthew 10:24-25.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 13:17. If ye know these things, happy, c.] 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 only remember; and they who perform their known duty, than such as barely know it. Sacred knowledge and devotedness to God are the means by which a man can arrive at beatitude." See Institutes of MENU, c. xii. Inst. 103, 104. For a heathen this saying is very remarkable.