21 Therefore, putting aside all moral uncleanness and wicked excess, welcome[a] with humility the implanted message which is able to save your souls.

22 But be doers of the message and not hearers only,[b] deceiving yourselves, 23 because if anyone is a hearer of the message and not a doer, this one is like someone[c] staring at his own face[d] in a mirror,

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Footnotes

  1. James 1:21 Or “receive”
  2. James 1:22 Some manuscripts have “not only hearers”
  3. James 1:23 Literally “a man,” but clearly in a generic sense here meaning “someone, a person”
  4. James 1:23 Literally “the face of his existence”