James 1:23 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

Hearken, my dearest brethren: hath not God chosen the poor in this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For if anyone only listens to the Word without obeying it and being a doer of it, he is like a man who looks carefully at his [own] natural face in a mirror;

American Standard Version (1901)

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:

Common English Bible

Those who hear but don’t do the word are like those who look at their faces in a mirror.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For if anyone is a listener of the Word, but not also a doer, he is comparable to a man gazing into a mirror upon the face that he was born with;

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

James 1:23 Cross References

Jeremiah 44:16

4 And Jeremias said to all the people, and to all the women : Hear ye the word of the Lord, all Juda, you that dwell in the land of Egypt:

Luke 6:47

And Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent his friends to him, saying: Lord, trouble not thyself; for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof.

Luke 6:7

5 Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon who is called Zelotes,

1 Corinthians 13:12

For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ?

James 1:24

But you have dishonoured the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you by might? and do not they draw you before the judgment seats?