James 1:22–26

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. 1:25 But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there,28 and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out—he29 will be blessed in what he does.30 1:26 If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile.

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.”
28	tn Grk “continues.”
29	tn Grk “this one.”
30	tn Grk “in his doing.”