James 1:25

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James 1:25

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Summary

But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

Looketh

The perfect

Liberty

1 Peter 2:16

And

A forgetful

James 1:23

This

General references

Deuteronomy 11:27

Proverbs 23:12

Luke 11:28

Bible References

Looketh

The simple will believe every word, but the clever will consider his step.

for teaching and for testimony?" {surely they [who] speak like this have no dawn}.

Test yourselves [to see] if you are in the faith. Examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize regarding yourselves that Jesus Christ [is] in you, unless you are unqualified?

Take care [that] no one falls short of the grace of God; [that] no one growing up [like] a root of bitterness causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;

The perfect

Thus speak and thus act as those who are going to be judged by the law of liberty.

The law of Yahweh [is] perfect, reviving life. The testimony of Yahweh [is] firm, making wise [the] simple.

I will run the way of your commands, for you will enlarge my heart.

So then, the law [is] holy, and the commandment [is] holy and righteous and good.

Liberty

and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

For you have not received a spirit of slavery [leading] to fear again, but you have received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, "Abba! Father!"

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord [is, there is] freedom.

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

[Live] as free [persons], and not using your freedom as a covering for evil, but as slaves of God.

And

If you will fear Yahweh, and serve him, and listen to his voice, and not be rebellious against {what Yahweh says}, and both you and the king who rules over you will [follow] after Yahweh your God, [all will be well].

Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you continue in my word you are truly my disciples,

"Just as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

And they were devoting themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayers.

And [after] the synagogue had broken up, many of the Jews and the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who were speaking to them [and] were persuading them to continue in the grace of God.

Therefore I have experienced help from God until this day, [and] I stand here testifying to both small and great, saying nothing except what both the prophets and Moses have said were going to happen,

to those who, by perseverance in good work, seek glory and honor and immortality, eternal life,

See, then, the kindness and severity of God: severity upon those who have fallen, but upon you the kindness of God--if you continue in his kindness, for otherwise you also will be cut off.

if indeed you remain in the faith, established and steadfast and not shifted away from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.

But she will be saved through the bearing of children, if she continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

Fix [your] attention on yourself and on your teaching. Continue in them, for [by] doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

[As for] you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

A forgetful

because if anyone is a hearer of the message and not a doer, this one is like someone staring at {his own face} in a mirror,

This

Moreover, your servant [is] warned by them; in keeping them [is] great reward.

Blessed are [those who] observe justice, [he who] does righteousness at all times.

Blessed [are] those who keep his testimonies; they seek him with a whole heart.

"Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and does them--I will show you what he is like:

But he said, "On the contrary, blessed [are] those who hear the word of God and follow [it]!"

If you understand these [things], you are blessed if you do them.

So then, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, [because you] know that your labor is not [in] vain in the Lord.

And I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write: 'Blessed [are] the dead who die in the Lord from now on!'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "in order that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow after them."

Blessed [are] the ones who wash their robes, so that their authority will be over the tree of life and they may enter into the city through the gates.

General references

the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God that I [am] commanding you {today},

Apply your heart to instruction, and your ear to sayings of knowledge.

But he said, "On the contrary, blessed [are] those who hear the word of God and follow [it]!"