Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in James 1:22

“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”

James 1:22 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in James 1:22, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of James 1. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

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.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Romans 2:13(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
  • Luke 6:46And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
  • John 13:17If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
  • James 4:17Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
  • 1 John 2:3And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
  • Luke 11:28But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
  • James 2:14What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
  • Matthew 12:50For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
  • Colossians 3:17And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
  • Matthew 7:21Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
  • James 1:26If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
  • Revelation 22:7Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
  • 1 John 3:7Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
  • Galatians 6:7Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

More to meet God in James

James 1:5James 1:2James 4:7James 1:19James 5:16James 1:17James 3:17James 3:6James 2:5James 5:11James 3:13James 1:12James 4:8James 3:14

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.