19 Remember
this, my dear friends! Everyone must be quick to listen, but slow to speak and
slow to become angry.
20 Human anger
does not achieve God's righteous purpose.
21 So get rid of every filthy habit and all wicked conduct.
Submit to God and accept the word that he plants in your hearts, which is able
to save you.
22 Do not deceive yourselves by
just listening to his word; instead, put it into practice.
23 If you listen to the word, but do not put it into
practice you are like people who look in a mirror and see themselves as they
are.
24 They take a good look at
themselves and then go away and at once forget what they look like.
25 But if you look closely into the perfect
law that sets people free, and keep on paying attention to it and do not simply
listen and then forget it, but put it into practice—you will be blessed by God
in what you do.
26 Do any of you think you are
religious? If you do not control your tongue, your religion is worthless and you
deceive yourself.
27 What God the
Father considers to be pure and genuine religion is this: to take care of
orphans and widows in their suffering and to keep oneself from being corrupted
by the world.
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