{"id":4996,"date":"2024-07-26T02:45:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T02:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=4996"},"modified":"2024-07-26T02:45:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T02:45:59","slug":"vain-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=4996","title":{"rendered":"Vain Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.  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: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth&nbsp;therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-green-color\">If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man&#8217;s religion&nbsp;is&nbsp;vain.<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction,&nbsp;and&nbsp;to keep himself unspotted from the world. James 1:22-27<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 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: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=4996\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vain Religion<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4996"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5035,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996\/revisions\/5035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}