Parallel Verses

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,

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 natural face in a mirror;

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 in a mirror.

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:

Amplified

For if anyone only listens to the word without obeying it, he is like a man who looks very carefully at 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,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
ὅτι 
Hoti 
Usage: 764

if
εἰ 
Ei 
if, whether, that, not tr,
Usage: 218

any
τίς 
Tis 
Usage: 373

be a hearer
ἀκροατής 
Akroates 
Usage: 4

of the word
λόγος 
Logos 
word, saying, account, speech, Word , thing, not tr,
Usage: 256

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

not
οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032

a doer
ποιητής 
Poietes 
Usage: 6

he
οὗτος οὗτοι αὕτη αὕται 
Houtos 
this, these, he, the same, this man, she, they,
Usage: 258

is
ἐστί 
Esti 
is, are, was, be, have, not tr, , vr is
Usage: 585

εἴκω 
Eiko 
be like
Usage: 2

a man
ἀνήρ 
Aner 
man, husband, sir, fellow, not tr
Usage: 198

κατανοέω 
Katanoeo 
Usage: 10

his

Usage: 0

γένεσις 
Genesis 
Usage: 3

πρόσωπον 
Prosopon 
Usage: 70

in
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

Context Readings

Doers Of The Message, Not Just Hearers

22 and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves, 23 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, 24 for he did view himself, and hath gone away, and immediately he did forget of what kind he was;

Cross References

Jeremiah 44:16

The word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah -- we are not hearkening unto thee;

Ezekiel 33:31-32

And they come in unto thee as the coming in of a people, And they sit before thee -- My people, And have heard thy words, and they do them not, For doting loves with their mouth they are making, After their dishonest gain their heart is going.

Matthew 7:26-27

'And every one who is hearing of me these words, and is not doing them, shall be likened to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand;

Luke 6:7

and the scribes and the Pharisees were watching him, if on the sabbath he will heal, that they might find an accusation against him.

Luke 6:47

Every one who is coming unto me, and is hearing my words, and is doing them, I will shew you to whom he is like;

James 2:14-26

What is the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him?

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