James 1:22
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.”
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. James warns that mere listening to truth, without acting on it, leaves us self-deceived.
Read the full meaning“Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”
King James Version · Public Domain“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo James 1:22 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 44:20He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”
- Obadiah 1:3The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
- Matthew 7:21Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
- Matthew 12:50For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
- Matthew 28:20and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
- Luke 6:46Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but not do what I say?
- Luke 11:28But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
- Luke 12:47That servant who knows his master’s will but does not get ready or follow his instructions will be beaten with many blows.
- John 13:17If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
- Romans 2:13For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.
- 1 Corinthians 3:18Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.
- 1 Corinthians 6:9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
- 1 Corinthians 15:33Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
- Galatians 6:3If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
- Galatians 6:7Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.
- Philippians 4:8Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think on these things.
- Colossians 3:17And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
- 2 Timothy 3:13while evil men and imposters go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
- Titus 3:3For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
- James 1:26If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.
- James 2:14What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith, but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?
- James 4:17Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.
- 2 Peter 2:13The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you.
- 1 John 1:8If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
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