James:1:19-27

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* Mark this well , my dear brothers . Let every man be swift in hearing , slow in speaking , slow in growing angry ; * for a mans anger does not further the righteous purpose of God . * So strip off all filthiness and superfluity of wickedness , and in meekness receive the implanted Word , which is able to save your souls . * And become doers of the Word , and not merely hearers , deceiving yourselves . * Because if any one is a hearer of the Word and not a doer , he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror ; * for after he has looked carefully at himself , he goes away , and at once forgets what he is like . * But the man who looks closely into the perfect law - the law of liberty - and continues looking , this man will be blessed in his deed because he is not a hearer who forgets , but a doer who does . * If a man thinks himself to be religious , and yet does not bridle his tongue , but deceives his own religion , * and undefiled before our God and Father , to look after orphans and widows in their affliction , and ever to keep himself unspotted from the world .

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