22 (A)But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. 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 (B)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. 25 But one who looks intently at the perfect law, (C)the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but (c)an effectual doer, this man will be (D)blessed in (d)what he does.

Footnotes:

a. James 1:23: ['Lit ', the face of his birth, '; or ', nature]
b. James 1:24: ['Lit ', and he]
c. James 1:25: ['Lit ', a doer of a work]
d. James 1:25: ['Lit ', his doing]

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