24For he beholds himself, and goes his way, and straightway forgets what manner of man he was.


In Context

21 Why lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

22 But be you doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like to a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

24 For he beholds himself, and goes his way, and straightway forgets what manner of man he was.

25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

James 1:24 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:24For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:24and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:24For he beheld himself, and went his way, and presently forgot what manner of man he was.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:24for he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:24for he has considered himself and is gone away, and straightway he has forgotten what he was like.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:24for he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:24For he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and immediately forgetteth what manner of man he was.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:24for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:24for he did view himself, and hath gone away, and immediately he did forget of what kind he was;