Christianity a Life
James 1:26-27
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.…


A man has no business to call himself a Christian unless the virtues of Christianity are in his life. I do not ask for degree, but I ask that they shall be there. If you have got a plant in a pot that for ten years, through summer and winter, sunshine and cloud, rain and dry, has never put out a leaf, nor shown the least symptom of life, what reason have you to believe that it is alive at all? It looks uncommonly like a bit of dead stick.

(A. Maclaren, D. D.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

WEB: If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.




An Unbridled Tongue, a Sign of a Vain Religion
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