James 1:23
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror,
In context
21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.
22 Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
23 For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror,
24 and after observing himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
25 But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.
James 1:23 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror,
- KJV King James Version
- 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:
- WEB World English Bible
- 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;
- ASV American Standard Version
- 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:
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- because, if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one hath been like to a man viewing his natural face in a mirror,
- DBY Darby Translation
- For if any man be a hearer of [the] word and not a doer, he is like to a man considering his natural face in a mirror:
- WBS Webster Bible
- For if any is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a glass: