James 1:23
Good News Translation
If you listen to the word, but do not put it into practice you are like people who look in a mirror and see themselves as they are.

New Revised Standard Version
For if any are hearers of the word and not doers, they are like those who look at themselves in a mirror;

Contemporary English Version
If you hear the message and don't obey it, you are like people who stare at themselves in a mirror

New American Bible
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his own face in a mirror.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

See on ch.

James 2:14-26 What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him? . . .

Jeremiah 44:16 As for the word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken to thee:

Ezekiel 33:31,32 And they come to thee, as if people were coming in, and my people sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them not: for they turn them into a song of their mouth, and their heart goeth after their covetousness. . . .

Matthew 7:26,27 And every one that heareth these my words and doth them not, shall be like a foolish man that built his house upon the sand, . . .

Luke 6:47-49 Every one that cometh to me and heareth my words and doth them, I will shew you to whom he is like. . . .

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Context
Hearing and Doing
22But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23For 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. 24For he beheld himself and went his way and presently forgot what manner of man he was.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 13:12
We see now through a glass in a dark manner: but then face to face. Now I know in part: but then I shall know even as I am known.

James 1:24
For he beheld himself and went his way and presently forgot what manner of man he was.

James 1:22
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