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James contrasts hearing only with doing, saying, "Be doers of the word, and not hearers only" (James 1:22). He uses the image of a mirror to show how hearing without action is quickly forgotten (James 1:23–24).
22But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
23For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a mirror;
24for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.