Be ye the Doers of the Word

Be Ye the Doers of the Word Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love Him. Do not err, my beloved children. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of Lights, with Whom is no variableness, of His own will begat He us with the Word of Truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted Word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 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: For he beholdeth himself and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was: Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

From ‘The Epistle of James,’ Chapter I