James 1:25

New American Bible - revised edition

But the one who peers into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres, and is not a hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, such a one shall be blessed in what he does.

Cross References

Psalm 106:3

Blessed those who do what is right, whose deeds are always just.

Psalm 119:32

I will run the way of your commandments, for you will broaden my heart.

Psalm 119:45

I will walk freely in an open space because I cherish your precepts.

Proverbs 14:15

The naive believe everything, but the shrewd watch their steps.

Isaiah 8:20

for instruction and testimony?” Surely, those who speak like this are the ones for whom there is no dawn.

Luke 11:28

He replied, “Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.” The Demand for a Sign.

John 13:17

If you understand this, blessed are you if you do it.

John 8:36

So if a son frees you, then you will truly be free.

Acts 13:43

After the congregation had dispersed, many Jews and worshipers who were converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who spoke to them and urged them to remain faithful to the grace of God. Address to the Gentiles.

Acts 2:42

They devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to the communal life, to the breaking of the bread and to the prayers.

Acts 26:22

But I have enjoyed God’s help to this very day, and so I stand here testifying to small and great alike, saying nothing different from what the prophets and Moses foretold,

Romans 11:22

See, then, the kindness and severity of God: severity toward those who fell, but God’s kindness to you, provided you remain in his kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off.

Romans 2:13

For it is not those who hear the law who are just in the sight of God; rather, those who observe the law will be justified.

Romans 7:12

So then the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. Sin and Death.

Romans 8:15

For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a spirit of adoption, through which we cry, “Abba, Father!”

Romans 8:2

For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed you from the law of sin and death.

1 Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be firm, steadfast, always fully devoted to the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

2 Corinthians 13:5

Examine yourselves to see whether you are living in faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless, of course, you fail the test.

Galatians 2:4

but because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy on our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, that they might enslave us—

Galatians 5:1

For freedom Christ set us free; so stand firm and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery.

Galatians 6:2

Bear one another’s burdens, and so you will fulfill the law of Christ.

Colossians 1:23

provided that you persevere in the faith, firmly grounded, stable, and not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, am a minister. Christ in Us.

1 Timothy 2:15

But she will be saved through motherhood, provided women persevere in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

1 Timothy 4:16

Attend to yourself and to your teaching; persevere in both tasks, for by doing so you will save both yourself and those who listen to you.

Hebrews 12:15

See to it that no one be deprived of the grace of God, that no bitter root spring up and cause trouble, through which many may become defiled,

James 2:12

So speak and so act as people who will be judged by the law of freedom.

1 Peter 2:16

Be free, yet without using freedom as a pretext for evil, but as slaves of God.

1 John 2:24

Let what you heard from the beginning remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, then you will remain in the Son and in the Father.

Revelation 14:13

I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Yes,” said the Spirit, “let them find rest from their labors, for their works accompany them.” The Harvest of the Earth.

Revelation 22:14

Blessed are they who wash their robes so as to have the right to the tree of life and enter the city through its gates.

1 Samuel 12:14

If you fear and serve the Lord, if you listen to the voice of the Lord and do not rebel against the Lord’s command, if both you and the king, who rules over you, follow the Lord your God—well and good.