The law cannot save any more than looking into a mirror can change one’s appearance. The law is like a mirror—it reveals one’s true condition. So does Scripture. James says: 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 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives