What Does James 1:22 Mean in the King James?
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The word you hear is still unfinished until it takes shape in what you do.
THE MEANING
The word reaches you as a reality that takes shape in action. Hearing without response leaves it unembodied, while treating exposure as transformation is the self-deception James names.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Being familiar with the word is the same as being changed by it.
THE ROOT
ποιηταί
poiētai
GROWS FROM
ποιέω
poieō
to do, make, bring about
The word rendered “doers” belongs to the same word family as making and what is made. Hearing reaches its visible shape when the word becomes action in your life.
ALSO GROWS
poiēma: thing made; workmanship
ποίημα
This branch names what has been made, showing how the word’s family links action with its visible result.
poiēsis: doing; deed
ποίησις
James uses this related word for “deed” in verse 25, returning the hearer to the action that gives the word shape.
THE PATTERN
The word becomes embodied through action; hearing alone does not complete its movement.
But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.THE THREAD
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:Jesus uses the same Greek verb for “doeth” that stands behind James’s “doers.” In both verses, action is where the heard word takes shape as a life.
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