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 1:25, 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.
- Luke 11:28
But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
- John 13:17
If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
- 2 Corinthians 3:17
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
- 1 Peter 2:16
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
- Luke 6:47
Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
- James 2:12
So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
- Galatians 5:1
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
- John 8:31
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
- 1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in …
- 1 Timothy 4:16
Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
- Psalms 119:96
I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.
- 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:
More to meet God in James
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.