Yakobus 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.

Yakobus 1:21

1:21 So put away all filth and evil excess and humbly ³  welcome the message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls.

Yakobus 3:1

The Power of the Tongue

3:1 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, ⁴  because you know that we will be judged more strictly. ⁵ 

Yakobus 5:19

5:19 My brothers and sisters, ⁶  if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

Yakobus 1:25

1:25 But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, ⁷  and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out – he ⁸  will be blessed in what he does. ⁹ 

[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.”

[1:23]  ² tn Grk “the face of his beginning [or origin].”

[1:21]  ³ tn Or “with meekness.”

[3:1]  ⁴ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.

[3:1]  ⁵ tn Grk “will receive a greater judgment.”

[5:19]  ⁶ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.

[1:25]  ⁷ tn Grk “continues.”

[1:25]  ⁸ tn Grk “this one.”

[1:25]  ⁹ tn Grk “in his doing.”