James 1:25

Doers Of The Message, Not Just Hearers

²⁴ For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. ²⁵ But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does. ²⁶ If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.

Forgetful Hearer

Law of Liberty

O God

No

Luke 11:28

But he said, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!"

John 13:17

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

Galatians 5:1

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

James 2:12

So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.

1 Peter 2:16

Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.

1 Samuel 12:14

If you will fear the LORD and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the LORD your God, it will be well.

Psalm 19:7-11

The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;

Psalm 106:3

Blessed are they who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times!

Psalm 119:2-3

Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart,

Psalm 119:32

I will run in the way of your commandments when you enlarge my heart!

Psalm 119:45

and I shall walk in a wide place, for I have sought your precepts.

Psalm 119:96-105

I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commandment is exceedingly broad.

Proverbs 14:15

The simple believes everything, but the prudent gives thought to his steps.

Isaiah 8:20

To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.

Luke 6:47-49

Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like:

John 8:31-32

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,

John 8:36

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

John 15:9-10

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.

Acts 2:42

And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

Acts 13:43

And after the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who, as they spoke with them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

Acts 26:22

To this day I have had the help that comes from God, and so I stand here testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come to pass:

Romans 2:7-8

to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;

Romans 7:12

So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

Romans 7:22-23

For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,

Romans 8:15

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"

Romans 11:22

Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.

1 Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

2 Corinthians 3:17-18

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

2 Corinthians 13:5

Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?--unless indeed you fail to meet the test!

Galatians 2:4

Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in--who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery--

Colossians 1:23

if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.

1 Timothy 2:15

Yet she will be saved through childbearing--if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

1 Timothy 4:16

Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.

Hebrews 12:15

See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no "root of bitterness" springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;

James 1:23-24

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror.

1 John 2:24

Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father.

Revelation 14:13

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

Revelation 22:14

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates.