Parallel Verses
Amplified
For if anyone only listens to the word
New American Standard Bible
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his
King James Version
For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
Holman Bible
Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his own face
International Standard Version
For if anyone hears the word but is not obedient to it, he is like a man who looks at himself in a mirror
A Conservative Version
Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this resembles a man observing his natural face in a mirror.
American Standard Version
For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror:
An Understandable Version
For if anyone is [only] a listener to the word and does not practice it, he is like a person who sees his natural face in a mirror,
Anderson New Testament
For if any one is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man that looks at his natural face in a mirror:
Bible in Basic English
Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a glass;
Common New Testament
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;
Daniel Mace New Testament
for a bare auditor without practice is like one who sees his image form'd by a mirror:
Darby Translation
For if any man be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like to a man considering his natural face in a mirror:
Godbey New Testament
For if any one is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a mirror:
Goodspeed New Testament
For anyone who merely listens to the message without obeying it is like a man who looks in a mirror at the face that nature gave him,
John Wesley New Testament
For if any one be an hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a glass.
Julia Smith Translation
For if any is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man observing the face of his creation in a mirror:
King James 2000
For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror:
Lexham Expanded Bible
because if anyone is a hearer of the message and not a doer, this one is like someone staring at {his own face} in a mirror,
Modern King James verseion
For if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man studying his natural face in a mirror.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For if any hear the word, and do it not, he is like unto a man that beholdeth his bodily face in a glass.
Moffatt New Testament
For whoever listens and does nothing, is like a man who glances at his natural face in a mirror;
Montgomery New Testament
Because if any one is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;
NET Bible
For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone who gazes at his own face in a mirror.
New Heart English Bible
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;
Noyes New Testament
For if any one is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a glass;
Sawyer New Testament
For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man perceiving his natural face in a glass;
The Emphasized Bible
Because, if any is, a word-hearer, and not a doer, the same, is like unto a man observing his natural face in a mirror, -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For if any man be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man that looks at his natural face in a glass;
Twentieth Century New Testament
For, when any one listens to it and does not practice it, he is like a man looking at his own face in a mirror.
Webster
For if any is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
Weymouth New Testament
For if any one listens but does not obey, he is like a man who carefully looks at his own face in a mirror.
Williams New Testament
Because if anyone merely listens to the message without obeying it, he is like a man who looks in a mirror at his own face,
World English Bible
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;
Worrell New Testament
Because, if anyone is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a mirror;
Worsley New Testament
For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a mirror,
Youngs Literal Translation
because, if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one hath been like to a man viewing his natural face in a mirror,
Themes
Careless hearing » Forgetfulness
Deception » Who deceives themselves
Hearing » Careless, characteristics of » Forgetfulness
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Word Count of 37 Translations in James 1:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Doers Of The Message, Not Just Hearers
22
But prove yourselves doers of the word [actively and continually obeying God’s precepts], and not merely listeners [who hear the word but fail to internalize its meaning], deluding yourselves [by unsound reasoning contrary to the truth].
23 For if anyone only listens to the word
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 44:16
“As for the word (message) that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we are not going to listen to you.
Ezekiel 33:31-32
They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they do not practice them; for with their mouth they express loving devotion, but their heart goes after their (unlawful) gain.
Matthew 7:26-27
Luke 6:7
The scribes and the Pharisees were watching Him closely [with malicious intent], to see if He would [actually] heal [someone] on the Sabbath, so that they might find a reason to accuse Him.
Luke 6:47
James 2:14-26
What is the benefit, my fellow believers, if someone claims to have faith but has no [good] works [as evidence]? Can that [kind of] faith save him? [No, a mere claim of faith is not sufficient—genuine faith produces good works.]