James 1:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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:

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 that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.

Luke 6:47

Every one that cometh unto me, and heareth my words, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:

Luke 6:7

And the scribes and the Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath; that they might find how to accuse him.

1 Corinthians 13:12

For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I have been known.

James 1:24

for he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.