James 1:19-27 Hearing And Doing Goes Hand In Hand

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James 1:19-27 Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger, 20 for the anger of man does not work the righteousness of God. 21 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and remaining wickedness and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

22 Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man viewing his natural face in a mirror. 24 He views himself, and goes his way, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in his deeds.

26 If anyone among you seems to be religious and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is vain. 27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Talk is cheap if your walk and talk is not lining up with the Word of God.

Stop talking about the word and start doing what it says also.

In other words, be ye doers also and not only hearers of the Word of God. Faith without work is dead.

Hearers, doers or hearers and doers? Which describes you?

Remember, if you are hearing only and not doing you are deceiving yourself!

God bless.

Debra