23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his [a]natural face (A)in a mirror; 24 for once he has looked at himself and gone away, [b]he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was.

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Footnotes

  1. James 1:23 Lit the face of his birth; or nature
  2. James 1:24 Lit and he

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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