James 1:25

Doers Of The Message, Not Just Hearers

²⁴ for he did view himself, and hath gone away, and immediately he did forget of what kind he was; ²⁵ and he who did look into the perfect law -- that of liberty, and did continue there, this one -- not a forgetful hearer becoming, but a doer of work -- this one shall be happy in his doing. ²⁶ If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain is the religion;

Forgetful Hearer

Law of Liberty

O God

No

Luke 11:28

And he said, 'Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping it!'

John 13:17

if these things ye have known, happy are ye, if ye may do them;

Galatians 5:1

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

James 2:12

so speak ye and so do, as about by a law of liberty to be judged,

1 Peter 2:16

as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;

1 Samuel 12:14

If ye fear Jehovah, and have served Him, and hearkened to His voice, then ye do not provoke the mouth of Jehovah, and ye have been -- both ye and the king who hath reigned over you -- after Jehovah your God.

Psalm 19:7-11

The law of Jehovah is perfect, refreshing the soul, The testimonies of Jehovah are stedfast, Making wise the simple,

Psalm 106:3

O the happiness of those keeping judgment, Doing righteousness at all times.

Psalm 119:2-3

O the happiness of those keeping His testimonies, With the whole heart they seek Him.

Psalm 119:32

The way of Thy commands I run, For Thou dost enlarge my heart!

Psalm 119:45

And I walk habitually in a broad place, For Thy precepts I have sought.

Psalm 119:96-105

Of all perfection I have seen an end, Broad is Thy command -- exceedingly!

Proverbs 14:15

The simple giveth credence to everything, And the prudent attendeth to his step.

Isaiah 8:20

To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, 'That there is no dawn to it.'

Luke 6:47-49

Every one who is coming unto me, and is hearing my words, and is doing them, I will shew you to whom he is like;

John 8:31-32

Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, 'If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth,

John 8:36

if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.

John 15:9-10

According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;

Acts 2:42

and they were continuing stedfastly in the teaching of the apostles, and the fellowship, and the breaking of the bread, and the prayers.

Acts 13:43

and the synagogue having been dismissed, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes did follow Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, were persuading them to remain in the grace of God.

Acts 26:22

'Having obtained, therefore, help from God, till this day, I have stood witnessing both to small and to great, saying nothing besides the things that both the prophets and Moses spake of as about to come,

Romans 2:7-8

to those, indeed, who in continuance of a good work, do seek glory, and honour, and incorruptibility -- life age-during;

Romans 7:12

so that the law, indeed, is holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.

Romans 7:22-23

for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man,

Romans 8:15

for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, 'Abba -- Father.'

Romans 11:22

Lo, then, goodness and severity of God -- upon those indeed who fell, severity; and upon thee, goodness, if thou mayest remain in the goodness, otherwise, thou also shalt be cut off.

1 Corinthians 15:58

so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 3:17-18

And the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty;

2 Corinthians 13:5

Your own selves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your own selves prove ye; do ye not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?

Galatians 2:4

and that because of the false brethren brought in unawares, who did come in privily to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that us they might bring under bondage,

Colossians 1:23

if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that is under the heaven, of which I became -- I Paul -- a ministrant.

1 Timothy 2:15

and she shall be saved through the child-bearing, if they remain in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.

1 Timothy 4:16

take heed to thyself, and to the teaching; remain in them, for this thing doing, both thyself thou shalt save, and those hearing thee.

Hebrews 12:15

looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;

James 1:23-24

because, if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one hath been like to a man viewing his natural face in a mirror,

1 John 2:24

Ye, then, that which ye heard from the beginning, in you let it remain; if in you may remain that which from the beginning ye did hear, ye also in the Son and in the Father shall remain,

Revelation 14:13

And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, 'Write: Happy are the dead who in the Lord are dying from this time!' 'Yes, (saith the Spirit,) That they may rest from their labours -- and their works do follow them!'

Revelation 22:14

'Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city;