James 1:22

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

But {G1161} be ye {G1096} doers {G4163} of the word {G3056}, and {G2532} not {G3361} hearers {G202} only {G3440}, deceiving {G3884} your own selves {G1438}.

Don’t deceive yourselves by only hearing what the Word says, but do it!

Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

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

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Cross-References

  • Romans 2:13 (115 votes)

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

  • Luke 6:46 (83 votes)

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

  • Luke 6:48 (83 votes)

    He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.

  • John 13:17 (67 votes)

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

  • James 4:17 (55 votes)

    Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin.

  • 1 John 2:3 (52 votes)

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

  • Luke 11:28 (45 votes)

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