James 1:25

Doers Of The Message, Not Just Hearers

²⁴ for he looks at himself and goes away and immediately forgets what sort of [person] he was. ²⁵ But the one who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues [to do it], not being a forgetful hearer but a doer who acts, this one will be blessed {in what he does}. ²⁶ If anyone thinks he is religious, [although he] 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, "On the contrary, blessed [are] those who hear the word of God and follow [it]!"

John 13:17

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

Galatians 5:1

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

James 2:12

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

1 Peter 2:16

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

1 Samuel 12:14

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].

Psalm 19:7-11

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

Psalm 106:3

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

Psalm 119:2-3

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

Psalm 119:32

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

Psalm 119:45

And I will go about {freely}, for I have sought your precepts.

Psalm 119:96-105

I have seen a limit to every perfection; your command [is] very broad.

Proverbs 14:15

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

Isaiah 8:20

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

Luke 6:47-49

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

John 8:31-32

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

John 8:36

So if the son sets you free, you will be truly free.

John 15:9-10

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

Acts 2:42

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

Acts 13:43

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.

Acts 26:22

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,

Romans 2:7-8

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

Romans 7:12

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

Romans 7:22-23

For I joyfully agree with the law of God in my inner person,

Romans 8:15

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!"

Romans 11:22

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.

1 Corinthians 15:58

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.

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

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?

Galatians 2:4

Now [this was] because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, in order that they might enslave us,

Colossians 1:23

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.

1 Timothy 2:15

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

1 Timothy 4:16

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.

Hebrews 12:15

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;

James 1:23-24

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,

1 John 2:24

[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.

Revelation 14:13

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."

Revelation 22:14

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.