Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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 (Matthew 7:21-29).
deceiving your own selves—by the logical fallacy (the Greek implies this) that the mere hearing is all that is needed.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing James 1:22:
Jeremiah 11:6
Matthew 7:24
James 1:19
James 1:23
James 2:9
James 3:17
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