James 4:17

For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

“But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

He didn’t humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.

Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

“Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”

Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Yet you have not walked in their ways, nor done their abominations; but soon you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.

If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

“ ‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, blasphemes Yahweh. That soul shall be cut off from among his people.

If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.

He did that which was evil in Yahweh his God’s sight. He didn’t humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from Yahweh’s mouth.

For Ezra had set his heart to seek Yahweh’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.

he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies:

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.

“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

Yahweh said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Hear the words of this covenant, and do them.

“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those who know the truth,

He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.

For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

But they didn’t listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than the nations did whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.

“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

“You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,

Another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,

Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”