[1:19] Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
[1:20] for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
[1:21] Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
[1:22] But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
[1:23] 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.
[1:24] For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.
[1:25] But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
[1:26] If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless.
[1:27] Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.