NEW TESTAMENT

James 1:23

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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;

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Verse 23. He shall be compared to a man, and so forth The sense is, that it is not enough for a man to examine and look into his interior, and the state of his conscience in a negligent and superficial manner, no more than one that goes to a looking-glass, but does not take care to take away the dirt or spots which he might discover. Witham.

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