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James 1:25 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does. "
James 1:25
Verse in Context
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23 For 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;
24 for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
25 But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
26 If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
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James 1:1
"James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings."
James 1:2
"Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,"
James 1:3
"knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance."
James 1:4
"Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing."
James 1:5
"But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him."
James 1:6
"But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed."
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