"Listen!" says Jesus. "I am coming soon! Happy are those who obey the prophetic words in this book!"

Happy are those who obey his commands, who always do what is right.

Let me see the prosperity of your people and share in the happiness of your nation, in the glad pride of those who belong to you.

Praise the LORD! Happy is the person who honors the LORD, who takes pleasure in obeying his commands.

Happy are those whose lives are faultless, who live according to the law of the LORD.

They never do wrong; they walk in the LORD's ways.

How I hope that I shall be faithful in keeping your instructions!

The LORD says to his people, "Do what is just and right, for soon I will save you.

I will bless those who always observe the Sabbath and do not misuse it. I will bless those who do nothing evil."

Happy are those who remain faithful until 1,335 days are over!

"Not everyone who calls me 'Lord, Lord' will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only those who do what my Father in heaven wants them to do.

Then I will say to them, 'I never knew you. Get away from me, you wicked people!'

The rain poured down, the rivers flooded over, and the wind blew hard against that house. But it did not fall, because it was built on rock.

The rain poured down, the rivers flooded over, the wind blew hard against that house, and it fell. And what a terrible fall that was!"

How happy are those servants whose master finds them awake and ready when he returns! I tell you, he will take off his coat, have them sit down, and will wait on them.

How happy they are if he finds them ready, even if he should come at midnight or even later!

"If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

"Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love me. My Father will love those who love me; I too will love them and reveal myself to them."

Jesus answered him, "Those who love me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and my Father and I will come to them and live with them.

If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love.

My commandment is this: love one another, just as I love you.

And you are my friends if you do what I command you.

For whether or not a man is circumcised means nothing; what matters is to obey God's commandments.

For when we are in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the lack of it makes any difference at all; what matters is faith that works through love.

Everyone who has this hope in Christ keeps himself pure, just as Christ is pure.

What he commands is that we believe in his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as Christ commanded us.

Those who obey God's commands live in union with God and God lives in union with them. And because of the Spirit that God has given us we know that God lives in union with us.

For our love for God means that we obey his commands. And his commands are not too hard for us,

It was our ancestor Jacob who gave us this well; he and his children and his flocks all drank from it. You don't claim to be greater than Jacob, do you?"

Be careful, however, not to let your freedom of action make those who are weak in the faith fall into sin.

Don't I have the right to follow the example of the other apostles and the Lord's brothers and Peter, by taking a Christian wife with me on my trips?

and flowing down the middle of the city's street. On each side of the river was the tree of life, which bears fruit twelve times a year, once each month; and its leaves are for the healing of the nations.

"If you have ears, then, listen to what the Spirit says to the churches! "To those who win the victory I will give the right to eat the fruit of the tree of life that grows in the Garden of God.

But nothing that is impure will enter the city, nor anyone who does shameful things or tells lies. Only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of the living will enter the city.

So Jesus said again, "I am telling you the truth: I am the gate for the sheep.

I am the gate. Those who come in by me will be saved; they will come in and go out and find pasture.

Jesus answered him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one goes to the Father except by me.