22 (A)[a]And be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, [b]deceiving your own selves.

23 [c]For if any hear the word, and do it not, he is like unto a man, that beholdeth his [d]natural face in a glass.

24 For when he hath considered himself, he goeth his way, and forgetteth immediately what manner of one he was.

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Footnotes

  1. James 1:22 Another admonition. Therefore is God’s word heard, that we may frame our lives according to the prescript thereof.
  2. James 1:22 He addeth reasons, and those most weighty: first, because they that do otherwise, do very much hurt themselves.
  3. James 1:23 Secondly, because they lose the chiefest use of God’s word, which correct not by it the faults that they know.
  4. James 1:23 He alludeth to that natural spot, to which is contrary that purity whereunto we are born again, the lively image whereof we behold in the Law.

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