Jam 1:22 | JFB | STEP | 22. 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 ( ). deceiving your own selves —by the logical fallacy (the Greek implies this) that the mere hearing is all that is needed.

James 1:22

22. 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 (Mt 7:21-29).

deceiving your own selves—by the logical fallacy (the Greek implies this) that the mere hearing is all that is needed.