"But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves." — James 1:22

James 1:22 · KJV

“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”

— James 1:22

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

James 1 — Context

For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

Cross References

Romans 2:13

(For not the hearers of the law {are} just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

Luke 6:46-48

And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

John 13:17

If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

James 4:17

Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth {it} not, to him it is sin.

1 John 2:3

And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

Luke 11:28

But he said, Yea rather, blessed {are} they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

James 2:14-20

What {doth it} profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?

Matthew 12:50

For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.