Thematic Bible: Who deceives themselves
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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.
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