"But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth {therein}, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer…" — James 1:25

James 1:25 · KJV

“But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth {therein}, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. {deed: or, doing}”

— James 1:25

Verse 24

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

Verse 26

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion {is} vain.

James 1 — Context

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.

But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth {therein}, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. {deed: or, doing}

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion {is} vain.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, {and} to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Cross References

Luke 11:28

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

John 13:17

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

2 Corinthians 3:17-18

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord {is}, there {is} liberty.

1 Peter 2:16

As free, and not using {your} liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. {using: Gr. having}

Luke 6:47-49

Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:

Galatians 5:1

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

James 2:12

So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

John 8:31-32

Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, {then} are ye my disciples indeed;