Verse List for YAC 1:23

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B I ◄ ← Yac 1:23 ↓ → ► ═ ©

Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) Anyone who is just a listener of the message and does nothing with it is like someone who looks at their face in a mirror

OET-LV Because if anyone a_listener of_the_message is, and not a_doer, this one is _like to _man observing his face of_ the _existence of _him in a_mirror.

ULT For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man beholding the face of his birth in a mirror.

UST Now some people hear God’s message, but they do not do what it says. Those people are like someone who looks at his face in a mirror.

BSB For anyone who hears [the] word but does not carry it out is like a man [who] looks at his face in a mirror,

MSB For anyone who hears [the] word[fn] but does not carry it out is like a man [who] looks at his face in a mirror,

BLB because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror,

AICNT For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror;

OEB For, when anyone listens to it and does not practice it, they are like a person looking at their own face in a mirror.

WEBBE & WMBB 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;

MSG ^(22-24)Don’t fool yourself into thinking that you are a listener when you are anything but, letting the Word go in one ear and out the other. Act on what you hear! Those who hear and don’t act are like those who glance in the mirror, walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they are, what they look like.

NET 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.

LSV because, if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one has been like to a man viewing his natural face in a mirror,

FBV If you just listen to the word, and don't act on it, it's like staring at your own face in a mirror.

TCNT For if anyone is a hearer of the [fn]word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror.

T4T Some people hear God’s message but do not do what it says [MET]. They are like someone who looks at his face in a mirror [SIM].

LEB because if anyone is a hearer of the message and not a doer, this one is like someone[fn] staring at _⌊his own face_⌋[fn] in a mirror,

BBE 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;

Moff For whoever listens and does nothing, is like a man who glances at his natural face in a mirror;

Wymth For if any one listens but does not obey, he is like a man who carefully looks at his own face in a mirror.

ASV 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:

DRA For if a man be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he shall be compared to a man beholding his own countenance in a glass.

YLT 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,

Drby 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:

RV 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:

SLT 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:

Wbstr 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:

KJB-1769 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:

KJB-1611 For if any be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like vnto a man beholding his naturall face in a glasse:
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps For yf any be a hearer of the worde, and not a doer, he is lyke vnto a man beholdyng his bodyly face in a glasse:
(For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his bodyly face in a glass:)

Gnva For if any heare the woorde, and doe it not, he is like vnto a man, that beholdeth his naturall face in a glasse.
(For if any hear the word, and do it not, he is like unto a man, that beholdeth/beholds his natural face in a glass.)

Cvdl For yf eny heare the worde, and do it not, he is like vnto a ma that beholdeth his bodily face in a glasse.
(For if any hear the word, and do it not, he is like unto a man that beholdeth/beholds his bodily face in a glass.)

TNT For yf eny heare the worde and do it not he is lyke vnto a man that beholdeth his bodyly face in a glasse.
(For if any hear the word and do it not he is like unto a man that beholdeth/beholds his bodyly face in a glass.)

Wycl For if ony man is an herere of the word, and not a doere, this schal be licned to a man that biholdith the cheer of his birthe in a mirour;
(For if any man is an herere of the word, and not a doer, this shall be likened to a man that beholdeth/beholds the face of his birth in a mirour;)

Luth Denn so jemand ist ein Hörer des Worts und nicht ein Täter, der ist gleich einem Mann, der sein leiblich Angesicht im Spiegel beschauet;
(Because so someone is a hearer the word and not a Täter, the/of_the is even on man, the/of_the be leiblich face in_the Spiegel looked_at;)

ClVg Quia si quis auditor est verbi, et non factor, hic comparabitur viro consideranti vultum nativitatis suæ in speculo:[fn]
(Because when/but_if who/any listener it_is words, and not/no doner, this/here comparabitur to_the_man consideranti face birth his/her_own(pl) in/into/on speculo:)

SR-GNT Ὅτι εἴ τις ἀκροατὴς λόγου ἐστὶν, καὶ οὐ ποιητής, οὗτος ἔοικεν ἀνδρὶ κατανοοῦντι τὸ πρόσωπον τῆς γενέσεως αὐτοῦ ἐν ἐσόπτρῳ. ‡

UGNT ὅτι εἴ τις ἀκροατὴς λόγου ἐστὶν, καὶ οὐ ποιητής, οὗτος ἔοικεν ἀνδρὶ κατανοοῦντι τὸ πρόσωπον τῆς γενέσεως αὐτοῦ ἐν ἐσόπτρῳ.

SBL-GNT ὅτι εἴ τις ἀκροατὴς λόγου ἐστὶν καὶ οὐ ποιητής, οὗτος ἔοικεν ἀνδρὶ κατανοοῦντι τὸ πρόσωπον τῆς γενέσεως αὐτοῦ ἐν ἐσόπτρῳ,

RP-GNT Ὅτι εἴ τις ἀκροατὴς λόγου ἐστὶν καὶ οὐ ποιητής, οὗτος ἔοικεν ἀνδρὶ κατανοοῦντι τὸ πρόσωπον τῆς γενέσεως αὐτοῦ ἐν ἐσόπτρῳ·

TC-GNT ὅτι εἴ τις ἀκροατὴς [fn]λόγου ἐστὶ καὶ οὐ ποιητής, οὗτος ἔοικεν ἀνδρὶ κατανοοῦντι τὸ πρόσωπον τῆς γενέσεως αὐτοῦ ἐν ἐσόπτρῳ·