James 1:24
Good News Translation
They take a good look at themselves and then go away and at once forget what they look like.

New Revised Standard Version
for they look at themselves and, on going away, immediately forget what they were like.

Contemporary English Version
and forget what they look like as soon as they leave.

New American Bible
He sees himself, then goes off and promptly forgets what he looked like.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For he beheld himself and went his way and presently forgot what manner of man he was.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For he beheld himself and went his way and presently forgot what manner of man he was.

what.

Judges 8:18 And he said to Zebee and Salmana: What manner of men were they, whom you slew in Thabor? They answered: They were like thee, and one of them as the son of a king.

Matthew 8:27 But the men wondered, saying: What manner of man is this, for the winds and the sea obey him?

Luke 1:66 And all they that had heard them laid them up in their heart, saying: What an one, think ye, shall this child be? For the hand of the Lord was with him.

Luke 7:39 And the Pharisee, who had invited him, seeing it, spoke within himself, saying: This man, if he were if a prophet, would know surely who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him, that she is a sinner.

1 Thessalonians 1:5 For our gospel hath not been unto you in word only, but in power also: and in the Holy Ghost and in much fulness, as you know what manner of men we have been among you for your sakes.

2 Peter 3:11 Seeing then that all these things are to be dissolved, what manner of people ought you to be in holy conversation and godliness?

Context
Hearing and Doing
23For 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. 24For he beheld himself and went his way and presently forgot what manner of man he was. 25But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work: this man shall be blessed in his deed.…
Cross References
James 1:23
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.

James 1:25
But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work: this man shall be blessed in his deed.

James 1:23
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