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James 1:19-25
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James 1:19-25
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Listening and Obeying
19 My dear brothers and sisters, always be more willing to listen than to speak. Keep control of your anger. 20 Anger does not help you live the way God wants. 21 So get rid of everything evil in your lives—every kind of wrong you do. Be humble and accept God’s teaching that is planted in your hearts. This teaching can save you.
22 Do what God’s teaching says; don’t just listen and do nothing. When you only sit and listen, you are fooling yourselves. 23 Hearing God’s teaching and doing nothing is like looking at your face in the mirror 24 and doing nothing about what you saw. You go away and immediately forget how bad you looked. 25 But when you look into God’s perfect law that sets people free, pay attention to it. If you do what it says, you will have God’s blessing. Never just listen to his teaching and forget what you heard.
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James 1:19-25
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James 1:19-25
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Act on What You Hear
19-21 Post this at all the intersections, dear friends: Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear. God’s righteousness doesn’t grow from human anger. So throw all spoiled virtue and cancerous evil in the garbage. In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life.
22-24 Don’t fool yourself into thinking that you are a listener when you are anything but, letting the Word go in one ear and out the other. Act on what you hear! Those who hear and don’t act are like those who glance in the mirror, walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they are, what they look like.
25 But whoever catches a glimpse of the revealed counsel of God—the free life!—even out of the corner of his eye, and sticks with it, is no distracted scatterbrain but a man or woman of action. That person will find delight and affirmation in the action.
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Santiago 1:19-25
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Santiago 1:19-25
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Hay que poner en práctica la palabra
19 Mis queridos hermanos, tengan presente esto: Todos deben estar listos para escuchar, pero no apresurarse para hablar ni para enojarse; 20 pues el enojo de una persona no produce la vida justa que Dios quiere. 21 Por esto, despójense de toda inmoralidad y de la maldad que tanto abunda, para que puedan recibir con humildad la palabra sembrada en ustedes, la cual tiene poder para salvarles.
22 No se contenten solo con oír la palabra, pues así se engañan ustedes mismos. Llévenla a la práctica. 23 El que escucha la palabra, pero no la pone en práctica, es como el que se mira el rostro en un espejo 24 y después de mirarse, se va y se olvida enseguida de cómo es. 25 Pero quien se fija atentamente en la ley perfecta que da libertad y persevera en ella, no olvidando lo que ha oído, sino haciéndolo, recibirá bendición al practicarla.
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