¹⁹^gKnow this, my beloved brothers: let every person ^hbe quick to hear, ⁱslow to speak, ^jslow to anger; ²⁰for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. ²¹Therefore ^kput away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with ^lmeekness the implanted word, ^mwhich is able to save your souls.

²²But be ⁿdoers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. ²³For 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. ²⁴For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. ²⁵But the one who looks into the perfect law, ^othe law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, ^phe will be blessed in his doing.

²⁶If anyone thinks he is religious ^qand does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s ^rreligion is worthless. ²⁷Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: ^sto visit ^torphans and widows in their affliction, and ^uto keep oneself ^vunstained from the world.

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James 1:22: But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

Cross references

g 1 John 2:21
h[Eccles. 5:1, 2]
i Prov. 10:19; 17:27
jSee Prov. 14:29
k Col. 3:8
lch. 3:13
m 1 Cor. 15:2; Eph. 1:13
n Rom. 2:13; [ch. 2:14–20; Matt. 7:21, 24–27; Luke 8:21; John 13:17]
och. 2:12; [Gal. 2:4; 5:1, 13; 1 Pet. 2:16; 2 Pet. 2:19]; See John 8:32
p Ps. 1:1, 2; Luke 11:28
qch. 3:2, 3; Ps. 39:1; [ch. 3:6; Ps. 34:13; 141:3]
r Acts 26:5
s Matt. 25:36
t Job 31:17, 18; Isa. 1:17, 23
u 1 Tim. 5:22; 1 John 5:18
v 2 Pet. 3:14