James 1:22 KJV — MannaFest

James 1:22

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

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

YLT

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

DBT

But be ye doers of [the] word and not hearers only, beguiling yourselves.

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James — The Lord's brother writes to the twelve tribes scattered abroad — five chapters of direct, practical wisdom on the life faith produces. Pure religion, the tongue, the prayer of the righteous.

Author: James the Lord's brother (traditional — cf. Gal 1:19), leader of the Jerusalem church
Date: Early — possibly mid-40s AD, making it likely the earliest NT letter

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Romans 2:13
(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Matthew 7:21
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Luke 6:46–48
And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
Joshua 1:8
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
John 13:17
If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

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The character by which our author desires to be known: James, a servant of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ. Though he was a prime-minister in Christ's kingdom, yet he styles himself only a servant. Note hence, Those who are highest in office or attainments in the church of Christ are but servants.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

And every perfect gift - Whatever tends to glory. Descendeth from the Father of lights - The appellation of Father is here used with peculiar propriety. It follows, "he begat us." He is the Father of all light, material or spiritual, in the kingdom of grace and of glory.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

"There must be inward practice by meditation, and outward practice in true obedience." Baxter. It is not enough to remember what we hear, and to be able to repeat it, and to give testimony to it, and commend it, and write it, and preserve what we have written; that which all this is in order to, and which crowns the rest, is that we be doers of the word.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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