James 1:23
King James Version (KJV)
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:
In context
21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
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:
24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
James 1:23 in every translation
- 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;
- 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,
- 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: