James 1:23

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For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone who gazes at his own face in a mirror.

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  • Matt 7:26-27 : 26 Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed– it was utterly destroyed!”
  • Ezek 33:31-32 : 31 They come to you in crowds, and they sit in front of you as my people. They hear your words, but do not obey them. For they talk lustfully, and their heart is set on their own advantage. 32 Realize that to them you are like a sensual song, a beautiful voice and skilled musician. They hear your words, but they do not obey them.
  • Luke 6:47 : 47 “Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and puts them into practice– I will show you what he is like:
  • Jas 2:14-26 : 14 Faith and Works Together What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food, 16 and one of you says to them,“Go in peace, keep warm and eat well,” but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is it? 17 So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself. 18 But someone will say,“You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith without works and I will show you faith by my works. 19 You believe that God is one; well and good. Even the demons believe that– and tremble with fear. 20 But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? 22 You see that his faith was working together with his works and his faith was perfected by works. 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says,“Now Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend. 24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. 25 And similarly, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another way? 26 For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
  • Jer 44:16 : 16 “We will not listen to what you claim the LORD has spoken to us!
  • Luke 6:7 : 7 The experts in the law and the Pharisees watched Jesus closely to see if he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they could find a reason to accuse him.

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  • Jas 1:21-22
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    21So put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls.

    22But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves.

  • Jas 1:24-26
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    24For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets what sort of person he was.

    25But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out– he will be blessed in what he does.

    26If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile.

  • Luke 6:49
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    49But the person who hears and does not put my words into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river burst against that house, it collapsed immediately, and was utterly destroyed!”

  • Gal 6:3-4
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    3For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

    4Let each one examine his own work. Then he can take pride in himself and not compare himself with someone else.

  • Rom 2:13
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    13For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.

  • Luke 6:46-47
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    46“Why do you call me‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do what I tell you?

    47“Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and puts them into practice– I will show you what he is like:

  • Jas 1:7-8
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    7For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord,

    8since he is a double-minded individual, unstable in all his ways.

  • Jas 3:2
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    2For we all stumble in many ways. If someone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect individual, able to control the entire body as well.

  • Matt 7:26
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    26Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

  • Matt 7:3-5
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    3Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?

    4Or how can you say to your brother,‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while there is a beam in your own?

    5You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

  • Prov 27:19
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    19As in water the face is reflected as a face, so a person’s heart reflects the person.

  • Luke 6:41-42
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    41Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?

    42How can you say to your brother,‘Brother, let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while you yourself don’t see the beam in your own? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

  • 2 Cor 3:18
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    18And we all, with unveiled faces reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, which is from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

  • 2 Pet 1:9
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    9But concerning the one who lacks such things– he is blind. That is to say, he is nearsighted, since he has forgotten about the cleansing of his past sins.

  • 1 Cor 12:16
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    16And if the ear says,“Since I am not an eye, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.

  • Jas 1:19
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    19Living Out the Message Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.

  • 1 Cor 3:18
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    18Guard against self-deception, each of you. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise.

  • Jas 3:13-14
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    13True Wisdom Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct he should show his works done in the gentleness that wisdom brings.

    14But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.

  • Mark 4:23
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    23If anyone has ears to hear, he had better listen!”

  • Jas 2:20
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    20But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?

  • 1 Pet 1:17
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    17And if you address as Father the one who impartially judges according to each one’s work, live out the time of your temporary residence here in reverence.

  • Jas 1:5
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    5But if anyone is deficient in wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without reprimand, and it will be given to him.

  • Jer 5:21
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    21Tell them:‘Hear this, you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not discern, who have ears but do not perceive:

  • Prov 17:4
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    4One who acts wickedly pays attention to evil counsel; a liar listens to a malicious tongue.

  • Eccl 5:1
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    1Rash Vows(4:17) Be careful what you do when you go to the temple of God; draw near to listen rather than to offer a sacrifice like fools, for they do not realize that they are doing wrong.

  • Jas 1:16
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    16Do not be led astray, my dear brothers and sisters.

  • 1 Pet 1:24
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    24For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,

  • Matt 6:23
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    23But if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

  • Matt 7:24
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    24Hearing and Doing“Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them is like a wise man who built his house on rock.

  • Jas 5:19
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    19My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

  • Jas 4:17
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    17So whoever knows what is good to do and does not do it is guilty of sin.

  • Matt 6:1
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    1Pure-hearted Giving“Be careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven.

  • Lev 5:4
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    4or when a person swears an oath, speaking thoughtlessly with his lips, whether to do evil or to do good, with regard to anything which the individual might speak thoughtlessly in an oath, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has later come to know it and is guilty with regard to one of these oaths–

  • Jas 2:17
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    17So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.

  • Jas 2:8-9
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    8But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture,“You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

    9But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators.

  • 2 John 1:8
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    8Watch out, so that you do not lose the things we have worked for, but receive a full reward.

  • Jas 4:11
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    11Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge.

  • Prov 23:7
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    7for he is like someone who has calculated the cost in his mind.“Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you;