^1:22But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves. ^1:23For 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.

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James 1:22: But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

Footnotes

25 The word for “man” or “individual” is ἀνήρ (anēr), which often means “male” or “man (as opposed to woman).” However, as 2 says, here it is “equivalent to τὶς someone, a person.”
26 Grk “the face of his beginning [or origin].”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror

CSBChristian Standard Bible

But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like someone looking at his own face in a mirror.

NLTNew Living Translation

But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves. For if you listen to the word and don’t obey, it is like glancing at your face in a mirror.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

But be doers of the message and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves, because if anyone is a hearer of the message and not a doer, this one is like someone staring at his own face in a mirror,

KJV 1900King James Version

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 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:

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