Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Deception » Who deceives themselves
So if any one of you thinks you are important when you really are not, you are only fooling yourself. Each of you must examine your own actions. Then you can be proud of your own accomplishments without comparing yourself to others.
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, who deceive themselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror. He sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what manner of man he was. read more.
But he who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and so continues, being not a hearer who forgets but a doer who works, this man will be blessed in what he does. If any man thinks he is religious, while he does not control his tongue but deceives his heart, this man's religion is vain (worthless) (useless).
But he who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and so continues, being not a hearer who forgets but a doer who works, this man will be blessed in what he does. If any man thinks he is religious, while he does not control his tongue but deceives his heart, this man's religion is vain (worthless) (useless).
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Verse Concepts
Proof » What to prove
I request (urge) (implore) you brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. Do not be conformed to this world (religious, social, political, and economic arrangement). But be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Prove what is the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.
So if any one of you thinks you are important when you really are not, you are only fooling yourself. Each of you must examine your own actions. Then you can be proud of your own accomplishments without comparing yourself to others.
Prove all things; hold fast to what is good.
Verse Concepts
Self-examination » Advantages of
For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
Verse Concepts
Each of you must examine your own actions. Then you can be proud of your own accomplishments without comparing yourself to others.
Verse Concepts
If our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us we have confidence toward God. Whatever we ask we receive from Him because we obey His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.