James 1:19–27 · BSB
1:19
My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
1:20
for man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness that God desires.
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1:21
Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.
1:22
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
1:23
For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror,
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and after observing himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
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But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.
1:26
If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.
1:27
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
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