James 1:22-23

1:22 But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves. 1:23 For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone ¹  who gazes at his own face ²  in a mirror.

James 1:25

1:25 But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, ³  and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out – he ⁴  will be blessed in what he does. ⁵ 

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].”

³ tn Grk “continues.”

⁴ tn Grk “this one.”

⁵ tn Grk “in his doing.”