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James 1:23

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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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  1. 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.”
  2. 26 Grk “the face of his beginning [or origin].”

The NET Bible First Edition, Copyright 1996-2005 by Biblical Studies Press

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

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.

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

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.

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

For if you listen to the word and don’t obey, it is like glancing at your face in a mirror.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

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,

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King 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:

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