James 1:22 BSB — MannaFest

James 1:22

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

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

2 voices

Bonaventure

Collationes de Decem Praeceptis, Collation 1 (1257)

The second benefit of keeping the commandments of God is the understanding of the sacred Scriptures. Gregory says that "by hearing God's precepts the disciples were not illuminated, but by doing them they were illuminated"; because not the hearers of the law only, but the …

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

"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.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

But be ye doers of the word - They had heard this doctrine; they had believed it; but they had put it to no practical use. They were downright Antinomians, who put a sort of stupid, inactive faith in the place of all moral righteousness. This is sufficiently evident from the second chapter. Deceiving your own selves - Παραλογιζομενοι ἑαυτους· Imposing on your own selves by sophistical arguments; this is the meaning of the words. They had reasoned themselves into a state of carnal security, and the object of St. James is, to awake them out of their sleep.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Modern Voices1 voice

John Bevere

The Fear of the Lord (excerpted in Charisma Magazine, "Partial Obedience Is Disobedience") (1997)

When we hear God's Word and do not do it, we deceive our own hearts!

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Γίνεσθε	Ginesthe	do be	G1096 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
ποιηταὶ	poiētai	doers	G4163 →
λόγου	logou	of [the] word	G3056 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
μὴ	mē	not	G3361 →
μόνον	monon	only	G3441 →
ἀκροαταὶ	akroatai	hearers	G202 →
παραλογιζόμενοι	paralogizomenoi	deceiving	G3884 →
ἑαυτούς.	he'autous	yourselves.	G1438 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
James 4:17
Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.
leads to
- John 9:41
  “If you were blind,” Jesus replied, “you would not be guilty of sin. But since you claim you can see, your guilt remains.”
- John 13:17
  If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
- John 15:22
  If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.
- 2 Peter 2:21
  It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them.
- Luke 12:47–48
  That servant who knows his master’s will but does not get ready or follow his instructions will be beaten with many blows.
Through
1 John 2:3
By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.
leads to
- John 14:15
  If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
- John 15:10
  If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
Through
Romans 2:13
For 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.
leads to
- James 1:22–25
  Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About James

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About James