11 translations · Greek

John 13:17

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

World English Bible

John 13:17 in 11 translations

WEB World English Bible
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
KJV King James Version
If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
BSB Berean Standard Bible
If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
ASV American Standard Version
If ye know these things, blessed are ye if ye do them.
LSV Literal Standard Version
if you have known these things, you are blessed if you may do them;
FBV Free Bible Version
Now that you understand these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
if these things ye have known, happy are ye, if ye may do them;
DBY Darby Translation
If ye know these things, blessed are ye if ye do them.
WBT Webster’s Bible
If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
If you know these things, you shall be blessed if you do them.

The Greek words

Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.

Word Transliteration English (BSB) Strong’s
εἰ ei If G1487 εἰ if
ταῦτα tauta these things G3778 οὗτος this/he/she/it
οἴδατε oidate you know G1492 εἴδω to perceive: understand
μακάριοί makarioi blessed G3107 μακάριος blessed
ἐστε este you will be G1510 εἰμί to be
ἐὰν ean if G1437 ἐάν if
ποιῆτε poiēte you do G4160 ποιέω to do/make: do
αὐτά auta them G846 αὐτός it/s/he
  • Luke 11:28

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

  • James 4:17

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

  • James 1:25

    But he who looks into the perfect 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.

  • Matthew 7:24–25

    “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. 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.

  • Exodus 40:16

    Moses did so. According to all that Yahweh commanded him, so he did.

  • Ezekiel 36:27

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

  • Luke 12:47–48

    That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes, but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

  • Psalm 19:11

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

  • Revelation 22:14

    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.

  • Psalm 119:1–5

    Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law. Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart. Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways. …

Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.

In context

15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.

16 Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him.

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

18 I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

19 From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he.

Read all of John 13 in the World English Bible.

Edition and source notes

Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.

Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.

The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.

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