James 1:23
World English Bible (WEB)
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;
In context
21 Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
23 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;
24 for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
25 But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
James 1:23 in every translation
- 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;
- 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:
- 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: