Jam 1:21-27, 2:17-26, 1Jo 2:3, 3:22-24, 5:3-5, Rev 22:14-15 | ESV | STEP | Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word , which is able to save your souls .

James 1:21-27

21 Therefore ^aput away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with ^bmeekness the implanted word, ^cwhich is able to save your souls.

22 But be ^ddoers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, ^ethe law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, ^fhe will be blessed in his doing.

26 If anyone thinks he is religious ^gand does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s ^hreligion is worthless. 27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: ⁱto visit ^jorphans and widows in their affliction, and ^kto keep oneself ^lunstained from the world.

James 2:17-26

17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

18 But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith ^mapart from your works, and I will show you my faith ⁿby my works. 19 ^oYou believe that God is one; you do well. Even ^pthe demons believe—and shudder! 20 Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? 21 ^qWas not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that ^rfaith was active along with his works, and faith was completed ^sby his works; 23 and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, ^t“Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a ^ufriend of God. 24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. 25 And in the same way was not also ^vRahab the prostitute justified by works ^wwhen she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.

1 John 2:3

3 And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we ^xkeep his commandments.

1 John 3:22-24

22 and ^ywhatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and ^zdo what pleases him. 23 And this is his commandment, ^aathat we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and ^ablove one another, ^acjust as he has commanded us. 24 ^adWhoever keeps his commandments abides in God, ^{▼▼Greek him} and God ^{▼▼Greek he} in him. And ^agby this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.

1 John 5:3-5

3 For ^ahthis is the love of God, that we ^aikeep his commandments. And ^ajhis commandments are not burdensome. 4 For ^akeveryone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world— ^alour faith. 5 Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes ^amthat Jesus is the Son of God?

Revelation of John 22:14-15

14 Blessed are those who ^anwash their robes, ^{▼▼Some manuscripts do his commandments} so that they may have the right to ^apthe tree of life and that ^aqthey may enter the city by the gates. 15 ^arOutside are ^asthe dogs ^atand sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.