James 1:25

Doers Of The Message, Not Just Hearers

²⁴ for after he has looked carefully at himself, he goes away, and at once forgets what he is like. ²⁵ But the man who looks closely into the perfect law??he law of liberty??nd continues looking, this man will be blessed in his deed because he is not a hearer who forgets, but a doer who does. ²⁶ If a man thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own religion,

Forgetful Hearer

Law of Liberty

O God

No

Luke 11:28

"No, rather," he answered, "blessed are those who listen to the word of God, and keep it."

John 13:17

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

Galatians 5:1

stand firm then, and do not be again entangled in a yoke of bondage.

James 2:12

So speak and act like men who are to be judged by the law of liberty.

1 Peter 2:16

Live like free men; and yet do not make your freedom a cloak for misconduct, but be the slaves of God.

Luke 6:47-49

"I will show whom the man that comes to me, and listens to my works, and does them, is like.

John 8:31-32

So Jesus spoke to the Jews that believed him, saying. "If you abide in my teaching, you are my true disciples;

John 8:36

"So then, if the Son shall set 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 stedfastly continued in the teaching of the apostles, and in the fellowship, in the breaking of the bread, and in the prayers.

Acts 13:43

When the congregation broke up, many of the Jews, and of the devout proselytes, followed Paul and Barnabas, who talked to them, and urged them to continue in the grace of God.

Acts 26:22

"But having obtained the help that comes from God, I stand even to this day witnessing both to small and great, saying nothing except what the prophets and Moses said should come;

Romans 2:7-8

eternal life to those who by patience in well-doing strive for glory and honor and immortality;

Romans 7:12

So then the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

Romans 7:22-23

For in my inmost self I delight in the law of God;

Romans 8:15

For you have not received a spirit of slavery in order that you should once more be afraid; but you have received a spirit of adoption, in which we cry out, "My Father, my dear Father!"

Romans 11:22

Fix your gaze, therefore, on the goodness and the severity of God; towards those who fell, severity, but towards you, God's goodness, if you continue stedfast in his goodness; otherwise you, too, will be cut off.

1 Corinthians 15:58

So, my brothers beloved, stand firm, immovable, always abounding in work for the Lord, because you know that your toil is not fruitless in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 3:17-18

(The Lord means the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord abides there is freedom.)

2 Corinthians 13:5

Examine yourselves to see if you are in the faith; put your own selves to the proof. Or do you not know, your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed you fail to abide the proof?

Galatians 2:4

Yet there were false brethren who had crept in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us again.

Colossians 1:23

And this he will do if, indeed, you continue in the faith, firmly founded and stedfast, and never moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, and which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, that gospel of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

1 Timothy 2:15

Notwithstanding she will be saved by the Child-bearing; (so will they all), if they live in faith and love and holiness, with self-restraint.

1 Timothy 4:16

Give heed to yourself and to your teaching. Persevere in these things, for by doing this you will save both yourself and your hearers.

Hebrews 12:15

Look carefully that there be no one who falls back from the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springs up to trouble you, and by its means many become defiled.

James 1:23-24

Because if any one is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;

1 John 2:24

If what you have heard from the beginning is abiding in you, you also will ever abide in the Son and in the Father.

Revelation 14:13

And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, "Write, Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord from henceforth! Yea, says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, For their deeds do follow them."

Revelation 22:14

"Blessed are they who wash their robes, so that they may have right to the Tree of Life, and may enter in by the gates into the City.