Discovery BoxJames 1:23 
Context1:23 For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone 1 who gazes at his own face 2 in a mirror.
James 1:26
Context1:26 If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile.
James 2:14
ContextFaith and Works Together
2:14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, 3 if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith 4 save him? 5
1 tn The word for “man” or “individual” is ἀνήρ (anhr), which often means “male” or “man (as opposed to woman).” However, as BDAG 79 s.v. 2 says, here it is “equivalent to τὶς someone, a person.”
2 tn Grk “the face of his beginning [or origin].”
3 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.
4 tn Grk “the faith,” referring to the kind of faith just described: faith without works. The article here is anaphoric, referring to the previous mention of the noun πίστις (pisti") in the verse. See ExSyn 219.
5 sn The form of the question in Greek expects a negative answer.
