"Ifyou keepMy commandments,you will abidein My love;justas I have keptMy Father'scommandmentsand abidein His love.
"For I have keptthe waysof the LORD,And have not actedwickedlyagainstmy God.
For he clungto the LORD;he did not departfrom followingHim, but keptHis commandments,whichthe LORDhad commandedMoses.
So Mosesand Aarondid[it]; as the LORDcommandedthem, thusthey did.
The LordGODhas openedMy ear;And I was not disobedientNordid I turnback.
"No onehas taken it awayfrom Me, but I layit downon My own initiative.I haveauthorityto lay it down,and I haveauthorityto takeit up again.ThiscommandmentI receivedfrom My Father."
"For I did not speakon My own initiative,but the FatherHimselfwho sentMe has givenMe a commandment[as to] whatto sayand whatto speak.
"Ifyou loveMe, you will keepMy commandments.
"He who hasMy commandmentsand keepsthem is the onewho lovesMe; and he who lovesMe will be lovedby My Father,and I will lovehim and will discloseMyselfto him."
Jesusansweredand saidto him, "IfanyonelovesMe, he will keepMy word;and My Fatherwill lovehim, and We will cometo him and makeOur abodewith him.
but sothat the worldmay knowthat I lovethe Father,I doexactlyas the FathercommandedMe. Getup, let us gofrom here.
"I glorifiedYou on the earth,having accomplishedthe workwhichYou have givenMe to do.
Jesussaidto them, "My foodis to dothe willof Him who sentMe and to accomplishHis work.
"And He who sentMe is with Me; He has not leftMe alone,for I alwaysdothe things that are pleasingto Him."
and you have not come to knowHim, but I knowHim; and ifI saythat I do not knowHim, I will be a liarlikeyou, but I do knowHim and keepHis word.
Circumcisionis nothing,and uncircumcisionis nothing,but [what matters is] the keepingof the commandmentsof God.
Finallythen,brethren,we requestand exhortyou in the LordJesus,that as you receivedfrom us [instruction] as to howyou oughtto walkand pleaseGod(justas you actuallydo walk),that you excelstill more.
For it was fittingfor us to have sucha high priest,holy,innocent,undefiled,separatedfrom sinnersand exaltedabove the heavens;
For it would be betterfor them not to have knownthe wayof righteousness,thanhaving knownit, to turn awayfrom the holycommandmenthandedon to them.
By thiswe knowthat we have come to knowHim, ifwe keepHis commandments.
but whoeverkeepsHis word,in him the loveof Godhas trulybeen perfected.By thiswe knowthat we are in Him:
the one who sayshe abidesin Him oughthimselfto walkin the same manneras He walked.
For thisis the loveof God,that we keepHis commandments;and His commandmentsare not burdensome.
Blessedare thosewho washtheir robes,sothat they may have the rightto the treeof life,and may enterby the gatesinto the city.
