"Faith Works"

Christian Standard Bible Chapter 1

HEARING AND DOING THE WORD

Christian Standard Bible Chapter 1

HEARING AND DOING THE WORD

19 My dear brothers and sisters, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger, 20 for human anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness. 21 Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent, humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

22 But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like someone looking at his own face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of person he was. 25 But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who works—this person will be blessed in what he does.

26 If anyone thinks he is religious without controlling his tongue, his religion is useless and he deceives himself. 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

MW Collegiate Dict. (11th Ed.)

Letter, General James

Body; Exhortation 1:2–5:20

Exhortation, Community 1:2–2:7

Allusion, Old Testament 1:19

Anger — A strong feeling of displeasure aroused by a wrong, whether real or perceived.

Discipline, Humility, Love, Patience, Righteousness, Speech

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who were born, not of natural descent, or of the will of the flesh, or of the will of man, but of God.

so that we who had already put our hope in Christ might bring praise to his glory.

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When there are many words, sin is unavoidable, but the one who controls his lips is prudent.

The one who has knowledge restrains his words, and one who keeps a cool head is a person of understanding.

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Better to approach in obedience than to offer the sacrifice as fools do, for they ignorantly do wrong. 2 Do not be hasty to speak, and do not be impulsive to make a speech before God. God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few.

E Or the abundance of evil

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In him you also were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and when you believed.

to take off, your former way of life, the old self that is corrupted by deceitful desires,

But now, put away all the following: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth.

t ; ; Jms 2:14–20

“Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain fell, the rivers rose, and the winds blew and pounded that house. Yet it didn’t collapse, because its foundation was on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 The rain fell, the rivers rose, the winds blew and pounded that house, and it collapsed. It collapsed with a great crash.”

For the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified.

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can such faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, stay warm, and be well fed,” but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way faith, if it doesn’t have works, is dead by itself. 18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you faith by my works. 19 You believe that God is one. Good! Even the demons believe—and they shudder. 20 Senseless person! Are you willing to learn that faith without works is useless?