James 1:21-25
1599 Geneva Bible
21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness, and superfluity of maliciousness, and receive with [a]meekness the word that is grafted in you, which is able to save your souls.
22 (A)[b]And be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, [c]deceiving your own selves.
23 [d]For if any hear the word, and do it not, he is like unto a man, that beholdeth his [e]natural face in a glass.
24 For when he hath considered himself, he goeth his way, and forgetteth immediately what manner of one he was.
25 But who so looketh in the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, shall be blessed in his [f]deed.
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- James 1:21 By meekness, he meaneth modesty, and whatsoever is contrary to an haughty and proud stomach.
- James 1:22 Another admonition. Therefore is God’s word heard, that we may frame our lives according to the prescript thereof.
- James 1:22 He addeth reasons, and those most weighty: first, because they that do otherwise, do very much hurt themselves.
- James 1:23 Secondly, because they lose the chiefest use of God’s word, which correct not by it the faults that they know.
- James 1:23 He alludeth to that natural spot, to which is contrary that purity whereunto we are born again, the lively image whereof we behold in the Law.
- James 1:25 Behaving himself so: for works do show faith.
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