This Week’s Health Care Word is: Self-Care

James 1: 22-25 (King James Version/KJV)

22) But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

23) For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

24) For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

25) But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

James 1: 22-25 (Amplified Version/AMP)

22) But prove yourselves doers of the word [actively and continually obeying God’s precepts], and not merely listeners [who hear the word but fail to internalize its meaning], deluding yourselves [by unsound reasoning contrary to the truth]. 

23) For if anyone only listens to the word [f]without obeying it, he is like a man who looks very carefully at his natural face in a mirror; 

24) for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he immediately forgets what he looked like. 

25) But he who looks carefully into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and faithfully abides by it, not having become a [careless] listener who forgets but [h]an active doer [who obeys], he will be blessed and favored by God in what he does [in his life of obedience].