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James 1:19-25
DIR By: clark thompson
Date: May 4, 2016, 7:16 am
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James 1:19-25 King James Version (KJV)
19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to
hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of
naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which
is able to save your souls.
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving
your own selves.
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:
24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway
forgetteth what manner of man he was.
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.
James 1:19-25 New Life Version (NLV)
19 My Christian brothers, you know everyone should listen much
and speak little. He should be slow to become angry. 20 A man’s
anger does not allow him to be right with God. 21 Put out of
your life all that is unclean and wrong. Receive with a gentle
spirit the Word that was taught. It has the power to save your
souls from the punishment of sin.
22 Obey the Word of God. If you hear only and do not act, you
are only fooling yourself. 23 Anyone who hears the Word of God
and does not obey is like a man looking at his face in a mirror.
24 After he sees himself and goes away, he forgets what he looks
like. 25 But the one who keeps looking into God’s perfect Law
and does not forget it will do what it says and be happy as he
does it. God’s Word makes men free.
New Life Version (NLV) Copyright © 1969 by Christian Literature
International
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19 We should think before we speak this way we may not say
something we are going to regret as much, this is also saying we
are consider what others are saying before we talk to prevent
them from being angry as well.
20 While there is righteous anger because God has been angry and
Jesus got angry at the temple most of the time anger is sinful
and leads us to further sin. Sinful behavior should us mad but
we should never direct that anger towards people because then it
become sinful for us.
21 We are to as Christians continually remove the evils from our
life the things that could keep us from serving the Lord, this
does not mean it is easy or that we will be perfect this is why
we have to keep doing this, they had cleansing pools at the
temple because they needed to be used often because they would
become unclean again, we will sin and need to keep turning to
Jesus away from sin.
22 We are to live by the word of the Lord this shows we are His,
it is pointless to know the word if you don’t follow it, it
condemns yourself.
23-24 He is using imagery here no one looks in a mirror and then
has to go back right after unless someone points out something
to them that they missed, they look into the mirror and make
sure they look they way they want before leaving the mirror, we
are to follow the word to look they way Jesus wants us to, we
should not forget whose we are.
25 We are to keep in His word this way we do not forget what He
wants from us and so we can further learn where He wants to take
and so we can keep growing in Him, this is done only by living
for Him by His word.
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