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James 1:21-27 KJV
James · chapter 1 · verses 21–27
21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. 22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23For 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: 24For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 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. 27Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.James 1:21-27 · King James Version
James 1:21-27 in context
19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
20For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
23For 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:
24For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
25But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
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.
27Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Commentary
Cross references
- Ephesians 4:22
- Ephesians 1:13
- 1 Peter 2:11
- John 6:63
- Psalms 25:9
- Colossians 3:5-8
- 1 Peter 2:1
- Hebrews 12:1
- Romans 2:13
- Luke 6:46-48
- John 13:17
- James 4:17
Key words (Strong's)
- superfluityperisseiaabundance, superabundantly, superfluously, superiority, preference, pre-eminence, gain…G4050 →
- naughtinesskakiamalignity, malice, ill-will, desire to injure, wickedness, depravity, wickedness that is…G2549 →
- straightwayeutheōsstraightway, immediately, forthwithG2112 →
- filthinessrhypariato make filthy, befoul, to defile, dishonour, to make filthyG4507 →
- forgettethepilanthanomaito forget, neglecting, no longer caring for, forgotten, given over to oblivionG1950 →
- continuethparamenōto remain beside, continue always near, to survive, remain aliveG3887 →
- fatherlessorphanosbereft , of those bereft of a teacher, guide, guardian, orphanedG3737 →
- afflictionthlipsisa pressing, pressing together, pressure, metaph. oppression, affliction, tribulation…G2347 →
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In this part of the chapter we are required, I. To restrain the workings of passion. This lesson we should learn under afflictions; and this we shall learn if we are indeed begotten again by the word of truth.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 19-27