James 1:22

Hearing and Doing

21Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.22Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.23For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror,

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Berean Standard Bible
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
American Standard Version (1901)
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves.
Bible in Basic English
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.
Douay-Rheims 1899
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Free Bible Version
But do what the word says—don't just listen to it and delude yourselves.
Geneva Bible 1599
And be ye doers of the word, and not hearers onely, deceiuing your owne selues.
King James (Authorized) Version
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Plain English Version
And don’t just listen to that word from God, but you have to do everything it says too. If you don’t do the things it says, you will just trick yourself.
Translation for Translators
Do what God commands in his message. Do not only listen to it, because people who only listen to it and do not obey it are wrong when they think that God will save them.
Unlocked Literal Bible
Be doers of the word and not only hearers, deceiving yourselves.
Noah Webster Bible
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
World English Bible
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
Young's Literal Translation
and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,