James 1:23-24

For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror, and after observing himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

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One song meets this passage

  • “When you're in the mirror, do you like what you see?”

    360 · Charli xcx

    strains against James 1:23-24

    James warns against a self-absorbed mirror-gaze that forgets what it saw; here the mirror only ever reflects back the singer's own image and nothing deeper.

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