James 1:22–24

1:22 But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves. 1:23 For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone25 who gazes at his own face26 in a mirror. 1:24 For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets27 what sort of person he was.

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25	tn The word for “man” or “individual” is ἀνήρ (anēr), which often means “male” or “man (as opposed to woman).” However, as BDAG 79 s.v. 2 says, here it is “equivalent to τὶς someone, a person.”
26	tn Grk “the face of his beginning [or origin].”
27	tn Grk “and he has gone out and immediately has forgotten.”