James 1:23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror

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New International Version
Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror

New American Standard Bible
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;

King James Bible
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:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his own face in a mirror.

International Standard Version
For if anyone hears the word but is not obedient to it, he is like a man who looks at himself in a mirror

American Standard Version
For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror:

Douay-Rheims Bible
For if a man be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he shall be compared to a man beholding his own countenance in a glass.

Darby Bible Translation
For if any man be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like to a man considering his natural face in a mirror:

Young's Literal Translation
because, if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one hath been like to a man viewing his natural face in a mirror,

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Context

Hearing and Doing

19Why, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20For the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God. 21Why lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. 22But be you doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like to a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 24For he beholds himself, and goes his way, and straightway forgets what manner of man he was. 25But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 26If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain. 27Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 13:12
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

James 1:24
For he beholds himself, and goes his way, and straightway forgets what manner of man he was.

Treasury of Scripture

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

See on ch.

James 2:14-26 What does it profit, my brothers, though a man say he has faith, and have not works? can faith save him...

Jeremiah 44:16 As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you.

Ezekiel 33:31,32 And they come to you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them...

Matthew 7:26,27 And every one that hears these sayings of mine, and does them not, shall be likened to a foolish man...

Luke 6:47-49 Whoever comes to me, and hears my sayings, and does them, I will show you to whom he is like...

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Strong's Concordance

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:

Topical Bible

Anyone Beholding Carefully Considering Doer Face Glass Hearer Listens Looks Mirror Natural Obey Observes Says Viewing

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James Chapter 1 Verse 23

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NT Letters: James 1:23 For if anyone is a hearer (Ja Jas. Jam)

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