James 1:25

The one who looks intently into the perfect law of liberty and perseveres in doing it will be blessed in his doing. Obedient, ongoing engagement with God's word brings blessing.

Cross-references · 38

• Luke 11:28But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
• John 13:17If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
• 2 Cor 3:17–18Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
• 1 Pet 2:16as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
• Luke 6:47–49Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.
• Jas 2:12So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.
• Gal 5:1Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
• John 8:31–32Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.
• 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
• 1 Tim 4:16Pay attention to yourself, and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
• Ps 119:96–105I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless. MEM
• Jas 1:23–24For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;
• Rom 2:7–8to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
• Rom 11:22See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
• 2 Cor 13:5Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? — unless indeed you are disqualified.
• Prov 14:15A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.
• John 15:9–10Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
• Rom 8:15For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
• Acts 26:22Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,
• Ps 106:3Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.
• Acts 13:43Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.
• Gal 2:4This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;
• 1 Tim 2:15but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.
• Ps 19:7–11Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple.
• Ps 119:2–3Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.
• Rev 14:13I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”
• Acts 2:42They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.
• John 8:36If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
• Rom 7:12Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
• Ps 119:45I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.
• Isa 8:20Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
• Heb 12:15looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;
• 1 Sam 12:14If you will fear Yahweh, and serve him, and listen to his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, then both you and also the king who reigns over you are followers of Yahweh your God.
• Ps 119:32I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free. HEY
• Rom 7:22–23For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
• 1 Jn 2:24Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.
• Rev 22:14Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
• Col 1:23if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

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