Verse 22
James 1:22
American Standard Version
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But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves.
Original Language Text
greek
Γίνεσθε δὲ ποιηταὶ λόγου καὶ μὴ ⸂ἀκροαταὶ μόνον⸃ παραλογιζόμενοι ἑαυτούς.
English Translation
Become indeed doers of the word and not merely hearers deceiving yourselves.
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Chapter 1 Context
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James, a servant of God (Elohim) and of the Lord Yashua (Jesus) Christ, to the twelve tribes which a...
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Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations;
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Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience.
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And let patience have [its] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.
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But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God (Elohim), who giveth to all liberally and upbra...
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But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven...
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For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord;
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a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways.
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But let the brother of low degree glory in his high estate:
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and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
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For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and withereth the grass: and the flower thereof falleth...
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Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the cr...
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Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God (Elohim); for God (Elohim) cannot be tempted...
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but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
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Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth fort...
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Be not deceived, my beloved brethren.
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Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with wh...
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Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of...
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Ye know [this], my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrat...
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for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God (Elohim).
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Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the impla...
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But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves.
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For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural f...
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for he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
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But he that looketh into the perfect law, the [law] of liberty, and [so] continueth, being not a hea...
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If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his hear...
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Pure religion and undefiled before our God (Elohim) and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and...
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