A moment in scripture
James 1:25
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
The surrounding passage
- James 1:23
For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
- James 1:24
For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
- James 1:26
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
- James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.