James 1:22 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²²But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

James 1:22 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

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Bible Commandments Conceit Consistency Deceit Deception Discipleship Dishonesty

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 19-27)

In this part of the chapter we are required, I. To restrain the workings of passion. This lesson we should learn under afflictions; and this we shall learn if we are indeed begotten again by the word of truth. For thus the connection stands—An angry and hasty spirit is soon provoked to ill things by afflictions, and errors and ill opinions become prevalent through the workings of our own vile and…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 22)

22. Qualification of the precept, “Be swift to hear”: “Be ye doers ... not hearers only”; not merely “Do the word,” but “Be doers” systematically and continually, as if this was your regular business. James here again refers to the Sermon on the Mount (Mt 7:21-29). deceiving your own selves--by the logical fallacy (the Greek implies this) that the mere hearing is all that is needed.