James 1:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 2:13 : 13 For it is not the hearers of the law who will be judged as having righteousness before God, but only the doers:
  • John 13:17 : 17 If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.
  • Luke 6:46-48 : 46 Why do you say to me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? 47 Everyone who comes to me and gives ear to my words and does them, I will make clear to you what he is like: 48 He is like a man building a house, who went deep and put the base of it on a rock; and when the water came up and the river was driving against that house, it was not moved, because the building was good.
  • Jas 4:17 : 17 The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
  • 1 John 2:3 : 3 And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws.
  • Matt 12:50 : 50 For whoever does the pleasure of my Father in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.
  • Luke 11:28 : 28 But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.
  • Jas 2:14-20 : 14 What use is it, my brothers, for a man to say that he has faith, if he does nothing? will such a faith give him salvation? 15 If a brother or a sister is without clothing and in need of the day's food, 16 And one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warm and full of food; but you do not give them the things of which their bodies have need, what profit is there in this? 17 Even so faith without works is dead. 18 But a man may say, You have faith and I have works; let me see your faith without your works, and I will make my faith clear to you by my works. 19 You have the belief that God is one, and you do well: the evil spirits have the same belief, shaking with fear. 20 Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use?
  • Rev 22:7 : 7 See, I come quickly. A blessing on him who keeps the words of this book of the prophet.
  • Jas 1:26 : 26 If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value.
  • Matt 7:21-27 : 21 Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will go into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the pleasure of my Father in heaven. 22 A great number will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, were we not prophets in your name, and did we not by your name send out evil spirits, and by your name do works of power? 23 And then will I say to them, I never had knowledge of you: go from me, you workers of evil. 24 Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock; 25 And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house, but it was not moved; because it was based on the rock. 26 And everyone to whom my words come and who does them not, will be like a foolish man who made his house on sand; 27 And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.
  • Luke 12:47-48 : 47 And the servant who had knowledge of his lord's desires and was not ready for him and did not do as he was ordered, will be given a great number of blows; 48 But he who, without knowledge, did things for which punishment is given, will get only a small number of blows. The man to whom much is given, will have to give much; if much is given into his care, of him more will be requested.
  • Matt 28:20 : 20 Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.
  • 1 Cor 6:9 : 9 Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,
  • Gal 6:7 : 7 Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.
  • Col 3:17 : 17 And whatever you do, in word or in act, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving praise to God the Father through him.
  • 1 John 3:7 : 7 My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;
  • 3 John 1:11 : 11 My loved one, do not be copying what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: he who does evil has not seen God.
  • Rev 12:9 : 9 And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down with him.
  • 2 Pet 2:13 : 13 For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;
  • Phil 4:8 : 8 For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things.
  • 1 Cor 15:33 : 33 Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.
  • Gal 6:3 : 3 For if a man has an idea that he is something when he is nothing, he is tricked by himself.
  • 1 Cor 3:18 : 18 Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.
  • Isa 44:20 : 20 As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.
  • Obad 1:3 : 3 You have been tricked by the pride of your heart, O you whose living-place is in the cracks of the rock, whose house is high up; who has said in his heart, Who will make me come down to earth?
  • 1 John 1:8 : 8 If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.

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  • Jas 1:23-26
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    23 Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a glass;

    24 For after looking at himself he goes away, and in a short time he has no memory of what he was like.

    25 But he who goes on looking into the true law which makes him free, being not a hearer without memory but a doer putting it into effect, this man will have a blessing on his acts.

    26 If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value.

  • Jas 1:21
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    21 For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.

  • Rom 2:13
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    13 For it is not the hearers of the law who will be judged as having righteousness before God, but only the doers:

  • 1 Cor 3:18
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    18 Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.

  • 2 John 1:8
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    8 Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.

  • Jas 1:16
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    16 Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    22 And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

  • Gal 6:3
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    3 For if a man has an idea that he is something when he is nothing, he is tricked by himself.

  • 2 Tim 2:15
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    15 Let it be your care to get the approval of God, as a workman who has no cause for shame, giving the true word in the right way.

  • Jas 2:20
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    20 Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use?

  • Jas 2:4
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    4 Is there not a division in your minds? have you not become judges with evil thoughts?

  • Eph 5:6-7
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    6 Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.

    7 Have no part with such men;

  • Luke 6:49
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    49 But he who gives hearing, without doing, is like a man building a house on the earth without a base for it; and when the force of the river came against it, straight away it came down; and the destruction of that house was great.

  • Col 2:4
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    4 I say this so that you may not be turned away by any deceit of words.

  • Luke 6:46-47
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    46 Why do you say to me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

    47 Everyone who comes to me and gives ear to my words and does them, I will make clear to you what he is like:

  • Jas 1:19
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    19 You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;

  • 1 Tim 4:16
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    16 Give attention to yourself and your teaching. Go on in these things; for in doing so you will get salvation for yourself and for those who give hearing to you.

  • Jer 5:21
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    21 Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:

  • Jas 2:8-9
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    8 But if you keep the greatest law of all, as it is given in the holy Writings, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself, you do well:

    9 But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.

  • Deut 30:14
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    14 But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may do it.

  • Jude 1:17
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    17 But you, my loved ones, keep in memory the words which were said before by the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • 1 Pet 2:1-2
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    1 So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,

    2 Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;

  • Titus 1:14
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    14 Giving no attention to the fictions of the Jews and the rules of men who have no true knowledge.

  • 2 Tim 3:13
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    13 Evil and false men will become worse and worse, using deceit and themselves overcome by deceit.

  • Jas 4:8
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    8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.

  • Gal 6:7
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    7 Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.

  • Jas 2:12
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    12 Let your words and your acts be those of men who are to be judged by the law which makes free.

  • Eph 4:22
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    22 That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

  • Matt 7:26
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    26 And everyone to whom my words come and who does them not, will be like a foolish man who made his house on sand;

  • Col 3:9
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    9 Do not make false statements to one another; because you have put away the old man with all his doings,

  • Jas 3:14
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    14 But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.

  • Heb 3:12
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    12 My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God:

  • Jas 2:17
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    17 Even so faith without works is dead.

  • Eccl 5:1
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    1 Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.

  • Rom 12:2
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    2 And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.

  • 1 John 1:8
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    8 If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.

  • Jer 7:8
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    8 See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.

  • Deut 11:16
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    16 But take care that your hearts are not turned to false ways so that you become servants and worshippers of other gods;

  • 1 John 3:18
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    18 My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.

  • Luke 8:12
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    12 Those by the side of the road are those who have given hearing; then the Evil One comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not have faith and get salvation.

  • Prov 17:4
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    4 A wrongdoer gives attention to evil lips, and a man of deceit gives ear to a damaging tongue.

  • Jas 1:8
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    8 For there is a division in his mind, and he is uncertain in all his ways.

  • Rom 2:21
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    21 You who give teaching to others, do you give it to yourself? you who say that a man may not take what is not his, do you take what is not yours?