James 1:22

Believers must do what the word says, not merely hear it, lest they deceive themselves. Genuine faith obeys; mere listening is self-deception.

Cross-references · 29

• Rom 2:13For 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.
• Luke 6:46–48Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but not do what I say?
• John 13:17If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
• Jas 4:17Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.
• 1 Jn 2:3By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.
• Luke 11:28But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
• Jas 2:14–20What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith, but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?
• Matt 12:50For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
• Col 3:17And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
• Matt 7:21–27Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
• Jas 1:26If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.
• Rev 22:7“Behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of prophecy in this book.”
• 1 Jn 3:7Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous.
• Gal 6:7Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.
• Luke 12:47–48That servant who knows his master’s will but does not get ready or follow his instructions will be beaten with many blows.
• 3 Jn 1:11Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.
• Gal 6:3If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
• 1 Cor 6:9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
• Matt 28:20and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
• 1 Jn 1:8If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
• Phil 4:8Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think on these things.
• 1 Cor 15:33Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
• 2 Pet 2:13The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you.
• Rev 12:9And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
• Titus 3:3For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
• Obad 1:3The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
• Isa 44:20He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”
• 2 Tim 3:13while evil men and imposters go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
• 1 Cor 3:18Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.

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