James 1:23

World English Bible (2000)

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;

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  • Matt 7:26-27 : 26 Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand. 27 The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell--and great was its fall."
  • Ezek 33:31-32 : 31 They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don't do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain. 32 Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don't do them.
  • Luke 6:47 : 47 Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.
  • Jas 2:14-26 : 14 What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? 15 And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food, 16 and one of you tells them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled;" and yet you didn't give them the things the body needs, what good is it? 17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself. 18 Yes, a man will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without works, and I by my works will show you my faith. 19 You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder. 20 But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead? 21 Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? 22 You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected; 23 and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called the friend of God. 24 You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith. 25 In the same way, wasn't Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way? 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
  • Jer 44:16 : 16 As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Yahweh, we will not listen to you.
  • Luke 6:7 : 7 The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.

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    21Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

    22But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

  • Jas 1:24-26
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    24for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

    25But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

    26If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.

  • Luke 6:49
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    49But he who hears, and doesn't do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great."

  • Gal 6:3-4
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    3For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

    4But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.

  • Rom 2:13
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    13For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

  • Luke 6:46-47
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    46"Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and don't do the things which I say?

    47Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.

  • Jas 1:7-8
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    7For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.

    8He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

  • Jas 3:2
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    2For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn't stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

  • Matt 7:26
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    26Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.

  • Matt 7:3-5
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    3Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?

    4Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye?

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

  • Prov 27:19
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    19As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man.

  • Luke 6:41-42
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    41Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?

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  • 2 Cor 3:18
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    18But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

  • 2 Pet 1:9
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    9For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

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    16If the ear would say, "Because I'm not the eye, I'm not part of the body," it's not therefore not part of the body.

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    19So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

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    18Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

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    23If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."

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    20But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

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    5But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

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    1Guard your steps when you go to God's house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don't know that they do evil.

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    16Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.

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    23But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

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    24"Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

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    19Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back,

  • Mark 7:16
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    16If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!"

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    17To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.

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    17Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

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    8However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.

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    8Watch yourselves, that we don't lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

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    11Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

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    7for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you.