Living Out the Message

1:19 Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters!21 Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger. 1:20 For human22 anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness.23 1:21 So put away all filth and evil excess and humbly24 welcome the message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls. 1:22 But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves. 1:23 For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone25 who gazes at his own face26 in a mirror. 1:24 For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets27 what sort of person he was. 1:25 But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there,28 and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out—he29 will be blessed in what he does.30 1:26 If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile. 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before31 God the Father32 is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.