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27 lines
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## Obey the word ##
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Obey the word of God" or "Obey God's message to you."
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## deceiving your own selves ##
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"deceiving yourselves" or "fooling yourselves"
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## For if anyone hears the word and does not do it, he is like a man examining his natural face in a mirror. ##
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James makes a comparison between a person who hears God word and does not obey it to a person who looks in the mirror then forgets what he looks like. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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## examining his natural face...and soon forgets ##
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the man looking at his face and soon forgetting what he saw is the like the man who hears the Word of God and forgets what he heard.
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## the perfect law, the law of liberty ##
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"the perfect law that gives freedom"
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## not just being a hearer who forgets ##
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"not just listening and then forgetting it"
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## this man will be blessed as he does it ##
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This can be translated with an active clause "God will bless this man as he obeys the law." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]]) |