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 web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 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.

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.

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