Taking Action

For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror, …

But someone will say, “You have faith and I have deeds.” Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds.

Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.

Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.

Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, as for the Lord and not for men,

…because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.