Deuteronomy 4:6

4:6 So be sure to do them, because this will testify of your wise understanding ¹  to the people who will learn of all these statutes and say, “Indeed, this great nation is a very wise ²  people.”

Matthew 5:19

5:19 So anyone who breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others ³  to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever obeys them and teaches others to do so will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 7:24

Hearing and Doing

7:24 “Everyone ⁴  who hears these words of mine and does them is like ⁵  a wise man ⁶  who built his house on rock.

James 1:25

1:25 But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, ⁷  and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out – he ⁸  will be blessed in what he does. ⁹ 

James 2:8-12

2:8 But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture, ¹⁰  “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” ¹¹  you are doing well. 2:9 But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators. ¹²  2:10 For the one who obeys the whole law but fails ¹³  in one point has become guilty of all of it. ¹⁴  2:11 For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” ¹⁵  also said, “Do not murder.” ¹⁶  Now if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a violator of the law. 2:12 Speak and act as those who will be judged by a law that gives freedom. ¹⁷ 

James 4:11

4:11 Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. ¹⁸  He who speaks against a fellow believer ¹⁹  or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge. ²⁰ 

¹ tn Heb “it is wisdom and understanding.”

² tn Heb “wise and understanding.”

³ tn Grk “teaches men” ( in a generic sense, people).

⁵ tn Grk “Therefore everyone.” Here οὖν (oun) has not been translated.

⁶ tn Grk “will be like.” The same phrase occurs in v. 26.

⁷ tn Here and in v. 26 the Greek text reads ἀνήρ (anhr), while the parallel account in Luke 6:47-49 uses ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") in vv. 48 and 49.

⁷ tn Grk “continues.”

⁸ tn Grk “this one.”

⁹ tn Grk “in his doing.”

⁹ tn Grk “according to the scripture.”

¹⁰ sn A quotation from Lev 19:18 (also quoted in Matt 19:19; 22:39; Mark 12:31; Luke 10:27; Rom 13:9; Gal 5:14).

¹¹ tn Or “transgressors.”

¹³ tn Or “stumbles.”

¹⁴ tn Grk “guilty of all.”

¹⁵ sn A quotation from Exod 20:14 and Deut 5:18.

¹⁶ sn A quotation from Exod 20:13 and Deut 5:17.

¹⁷ tn Grk “a law of freedom.”

¹⁹ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.

²⁰ tn See note on the word “believer” in 1:9.

²¹ tn Grk “a judge.”