Text -- James 1:23 (NET)

1:23 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.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Jam 1:23

¹ tn The word for “man” or “individual” is ἀνήρ (anhr), which often means “male” or “man (as opposed to woman).” However, as BDAG 79 s.v. 2 says, here it is “equivalent to τὶς someone, a person.”

² tn Grk “the face of his beginning [or origin].”