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: "
— James 1:23, American Standard Version
“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 if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;”
“For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone who gazes at his own face in a mirror.”
“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.”
“Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a glass;”
“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 the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves.
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:
for he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
But he that looketh into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and so continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing.
If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man’s religion is vain.