For if a person just listens and doesn’t obey, he is like a man looking at his face in a mirror; as soon as he walks away, he can’t see himself anymore or remember what he looks like. But if anyone keeps looking steadily into God’s law for free men, he will […]
…humbly be glad for the wonderful message we have received, for it is able to save our souls as it takes hold of our hearts. And remember, it is a message to obey, not just to listen to. So don’t fool yourselves. James 1:21-22, TLB
Dear brothers, don’t ever forget that it is best to listen much, speak little, and not become angry; for anger doesn’t make us good, as God demands that we must be. James 1: 19-20, TLB
But whatever is good and perfect comes to us from God, the Creator of all light, and he shines forever without change or shadow. James 1:17, TLB
Then God said, “Let us make a man—someone like ourselves,* to be the master of all life upon the earth and in the skies and in the seas.” Genesis 1:26, TLB
It is God himself who has made us what we are and given us new lives from Christ Jesus; and long ages ago he planned that we should spend these lives in helping others. Ephesians 2:10, TLB