James 1:25

Doers Of The Message, Not Just Hearers

²⁴ for he looks and then goes off and at once forgets how he looked. ²⁵ But the man who looks at the flawless law that makes men free, and keeps on looking, proving himself to be, not a forgetful hearer but an actual doer of what it requires, will be blessed in what he does. ²⁶ If anyone thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives himself, his religious worship is worthless.

Forgetful Hearer

Law of Liberty

O God

No

Luke 11:28

But He said, "Yes, but better still, blessed are those who listen to God's message and practice it!"

John 13:17

If you know all this, happy are you if you practice it.

Galatians 5:1

This is the freedom with which Christ has made us free. So keep on standing in it, and stop letting your necks be fastened in the yoke of slavery again.

James 2:12

You must continue talking and acting like people who are to be judged by the law that treats them as free.

1 Peter 2:16

Live like free men, only do not make your freedom a pretext for doing evil, but live like slaves of God.

Luke 6:47-49

Everyone who comes to me and continues to listen to my words and practices their teachings, I will show you whom he is like.

John 8:31-32

So Jesus said to the Jews who believed in Him, "If you live in accordance with what I teach, you are really my disciples,

John 8:36

So if the Son sets you free, you will be really free.

John 15:9-10

I have loved you just as the Father has loved me. You must remain in my love.

Acts 2:42

And they devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to fellowship with one another, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

Acts 13:43

and after the congregation had broken up, many Jews and devout converts to Judaism allied themselves with Paul and Barnabas, and they kept talking to them and urging them to continue to rely on the unmerited favor of God.

Acts 26:22

As I have gotten help from God clear down to this very day, I stand here to testify to high and low alike, without adding a syllable to what Moses and the prophets said should take place,

Romans 2:7-8

eternal life to those who patiently continue doing good and striving for glory, honor, and immortality,

Romans 7:12

So the law itself is holy, and its specific commands are holy, right, and good.

Romans 7:22-23

For in accordance with my better inner nature I approve God's law,

Romans 8:15

For you do not have a sense of servitude to fill you with dread again, but the consciousness of adopted sons by which we cry, "Abba," that is, "Father."

Romans 11:22

So take a look at the goodness and the severity of God; severity to those who have fallen, but goodness to you, on condition that you continue to live by His goodness; otherwise, you too will be pruned away.

1 Corinthians 15:58

So, my dear brothers, continue to be firm, incapable of being moved, always letting the cup run over in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the service of the Lord is never thrown away.

2 Corinthians 3:17-18

Now the Lord means the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

2 Corinthians 13:5

You yourselves must continue testing yourselves to see whether you are continuing in the faith. You must continue standing the test. Do you not know by a growing experience that Jesus Christ is in you? -- provided you stand the test.

Galatians 2:4

they did not try it even for the sake of the false brothers who had been smuggled in, who stole in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, so as to make us slaves again.

Colossians 1:23

if indeed you continue well grounded and firm in faith and never shift from the hope inspired by the good news you heard, which has been preached all over the world, and of which I, Paul, have been made a minister.

1 Timothy 2:15

But women will be saved through motherhood, if they continue to live in faith, love, and purity, blended with good sense.

1 Timothy 4:16

Make it your habit to pay close attention to yourself and your teaching. Persevere in these things, for if you do you will save both yourself and those who listen to you.

Hebrews 12:15

Continue to look after one another, that no one fails to gain God's spiritual blessing; or some evil like a bitter root may spring up and trouble you, and many of you be contaminated by it --

James 1:23-24

Because if anyone merely listens to the message without obeying it, he is like a man who looks in a mirror at his own face,

1 John 2:24

Let what you have heard from the beginning continue to live in your hearts; if you do, you will always remain in union with the Son and the Father.

Revelation 14:13

Then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write: 'Blessed are the dead who from this time die as Christians.'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "let them rest from their toils, for the things they have done are going with them."

Revelation 22:14

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so as to have a right to the tree of life and to enter the gates of the city.