James 1:25

Doers Of The Message, Not Just Hearers

²⁴ for he has considered himself and is gone away, and straightway he has forgotten what he was like. ²⁵ But he that fixes his view on the perfect law, that of liberty, and abides in it, being not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, he shall be blessed in his doing. ²⁶ If any one think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is vain.

Forgetful Hearer

Law of Liberty

O God

No

Luke 11:28

But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.

John 13:17

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

Galatians 5:1

Christ has set us free in freedom; stand fast therefore, and be not held again in a yoke of bondage.

James 2:12

So speak ye, and so act, as those that are to be judged by the law of liberty;

1 Peter 2:16

as free, and not as having liberty as a cloak of malice, but as God's bondmen.

1 Samuel 12:14

If ye fear Jehovah, and serve him, and hearken to his voice, and rebel not against the commandment of Jehovah, then both ye and the king also that reigns over you shall continue following Jehovah your God.

Psalm 19:7-11

The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul; the testimony of Jehovah is sure, making wise the simple;

Psalm 106:3

Blessed are they that keep justice, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.

Psalm 119:2-3

Blessed are they that observe his testimonies, that seek him with the whole heart;

Psalm 119:32

I will run the way of thy commandments when thou shalt enlarge my heart.

Psalm 119:45

And I will walk at liberty, for I have sought thy precepts;

Psalm 119:96-105

I have seen an end of all perfection: thy commandment is exceeding broad.

Proverbs 14:15

The simple believeth every word; but the prudent man heedeth his going.

Isaiah 8:20

To the law and the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, for them there is no daybreak.

Luke 6:47-49

Every one that comes to me, and hears my words and does them, I will shew you to whom he is like.

John 8:31-32

Jesus therefore said to the Jews who believed him, If ye abide in my word, ye are truly my disciples;

John 8:36

If therefore the Son shall set you free, ye shall be really free.

John 15:9-10

As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you: abide in my love.

Acts 2:42

And they persevered in the teaching and fellowship of the apostles, in breaking of bread and prayers.

Acts 13:43

And the congregation of the synagogue having broken up, many of the Jews and of the worshipping proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

Acts 26:22

Having therefore met with the help which is from God, I have stood firm unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying nothing else than those things which both the prophets and Moses have said should happen,

Romans 2:7-8

to them who, in patient continuance of good works, seek for glory and honour and incorruptibility, life eternal.

Romans 7:12

So that the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

Romans 7:22-23

For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man:

Romans 8:15

For ye have not received a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye have received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

Romans 11:22

Behold then the goodness and severity of God: upon them who have fallen, severity; upon thee goodness of God, if thou shalt abide in goodness, since otherwise thou also wilt be cut away.

1 Corinthians 15:58

So then, my beloved brethren, be firm, immovable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 3:17-18

Now the Lord is the Spirit, but where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

2 Corinthians 13:5

examine your own selves if ye be in the faith; prove your own selves: do ye not recognise yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed ye be reprobates?

Galatians 2:4

and it was on account of the false brethren brought in surreptitiously, who came in surreptitiously to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

Colossians 1:23

if indeed ye abide in the faith founded and firm, and not moved away from the hope of the glad tidings, which ye have heard, which have been proclaimed in the whole creation which is under heaven, of which I Paul became minister.

1 Timothy 2:15

But she shall be preserved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with discretion.

1 Timothy 4:16

Give heed to thyself and to the teaching; continue in them; for, doing this, thou shalt save both thyself and those that hear thee.

Hebrews 12:15

watching lest there be any one who lacks the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;

James 1:23-24

For if any man be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like to a man considering his natural face in a mirror:

1 John 2:24

As for you let that which ye have heard from the beginning abide in you: if what ye have heard from the beginning abides in you, ye also shall abide in the Son and in the Father.

Revelation 14:13

And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying, Write, Blessed the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth. Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; for their works follow with them.

Revelation 22:14

Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have right to the tree of life, and that they should go in by the gates into the city.