My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger doesn’t produce the righteousness that God desires. Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that’s so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.
Don’t merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but doesn’t do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they’ve heard, but doing it—they’ll be blessed in what they do.
Those who consider themselves religious and yet don’t keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion’s worthless. Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
James
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