²³ For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. ²⁴ For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. ²⁵ But the one who looks into the perfect law, ^(A)the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, ^(B)he will be blessed in his doing.

⁹ I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.

¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, ^(A)sold under sin.

²⁴ Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from ^(A)this body of death?