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James 1:23

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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:

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  1. James 1:21

    Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

  2. James 1:22

    But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

  3. James 1:24

    For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

  4. James 1:25

    But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.