“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.”
But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it — not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it — they will be blessed in what they do — the 'perfect law of freedom' (nomos teleios tēs eleutherias) paradoxically unites law and liberty, suggesting that God's revealed will for human flourishing is not constraining but liberating. The one who persists (parameinō) in this law and becomes a 'doer of the work' (poiētēs ergou) experiences blessing (makarios). The blessing here is not future or merely spiritual but present and practical, evident 'in what they do.'
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