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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - James 1:22 - 1:22
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Qualification of the precept, “Be swift to hear”: “Be ye doers ... not hearers only”; not merely “Do the word,” but “Be doers” systematically and continually, as if this was your regular business. James here again refers to the Sermon on the Mount (Mat 7:21-29).
deceiving your own selves - by the logical fallacy (the Greek implies this) that the mere hearing is all that is needed.