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.

22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.(A) 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

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