James 1:23 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²³ 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:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ 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

²³ 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)

²³ 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

²³ Those who hear but don’t do the word are like those who look at their faces in a mirror.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ 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

²³ 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

Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will show you to whom he is like:

Luke 6:7

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

1 Corinthians 13:12

For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

James 1:24

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