NET Bible
"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."
— James 1:23, NET 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:”
“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 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 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 human anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness.
So put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls.
But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves.
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 he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets what sort of person he was.
But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out– he will be blessed in what he does.
If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile.