James 1:23

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

For if anyone is [only] a listener to the word and does not practice it, he is like a person who sees his natural face in a mirror,

Cross References

Luke 6:47

Every person who comes to me and listens to my words and obeys them, I will show you who he is like.

Luke 6:7

And the experts in the Law of Moses were watching Him to see if He would heal [someone] on the Sabbath day, so they could figure out how to accuse Him.

1 Corinthians 13:12

For now [i.e., during the church’s infant state] we see in a mirror [Note: God’s word is elsewhere likened to a mirror. See James 1:22-25] indistinctly [i.e., because of having only partial knowledge and prophecy], but then [i.e., when the church matures and has the completed Scriptures], we will see face to face [i.e., clearly]. Now I have [only] partial knowledge, but then I will have full knowledge, just as [God has] full knowledge of me.

James 1:24

and [then after] he sees himself, [he] goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.