Hear the word and do it

19Know this, my beloved brothers: let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

20For a man's anger does not produce God's righteousness.

21Therefore, having put away all filthiness and the overflow of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

22But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

23For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one is like a man carefully looking at the face of his birth in a mirror,

24For he looked at himself and went away, and immediately forgot what kind of person he was.

25But the one who has looked intently into the perfect law, the law of freedom, and has continued in it—not becoming a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work—this one will be blessed in his doing.

26If anyone thinks he is religious while not bridling his tongue but deceiving his heart, this person's religion is worthless.

27Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.