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James 1:23
Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a glass;
James 1:23 · Bible in Basic English
James 1:23 in other translations
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:
For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror,
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;
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In context
20 For the righteousness of God does not come about by the wrath of man.
21 For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.
22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.
23 Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a glass;
24 For after looking at himself he goes away, and in a short time he has no memory of what he was like.
25 But he who goes on looking into the true law which makes him free, being not a hearer without memory but a doer putting it into effect, this man will have a blessing on his acts.
26 If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value.
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