22 But be doers of the message and not hearers only,[a] deceiving yourselves, 23 because if anyone is a hearer of the message and not a doer, this one is like someone[b] staring at his own face[c] in a mirror, 24 for he looks at himself and goes away and immediately forgets what sort of person he was.

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Footnotes

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