As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you.
James 1:23 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you.
Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.
The scribes and the Perushim watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Shabbat, that they might find an accusation against him.
For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.