Taking Action
10 passages
- James 1:23–25
23For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror, 24and after observing himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.
Read it in context - James 2:18
But someone will say, “You have faith and I have deeds.” Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds.
Read it in context - 1 John 3:18
Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.
Read it in context - James 4:17
Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.
Read it in context - Colossians 3:23–24
23Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, as for the Lord and not for men, 24because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.
Read it in context - 1 Peter 1:13
Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Read it in context - Luke 11:9
So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
Read it in context - James 1:22
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
Read it in context - 2 Timothy 1:7
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
Read it in context - James 2:26
As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
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