James 1:23 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who observes his natural face in a mirror;

More versions

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

“As for the word which you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not listen to you.

Luke 6:47

Every one who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like:

Luke 6:7

And the scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the sabbath, so that they might find an accusation against him.

1 Corinthians 13:12

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.

James 1:24

for he observes himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.