James 1
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- Know this, my dear brothers: everyone should be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath,
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- for the wrath of a man does not accomplish the righteousness of God.
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- Therefore, put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the word that has been planted in you and is able to save your souls.
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- Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.
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- For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his own face in a mirror.
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- He sees himself, then goes off and promptly forgets what he looked like.
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- But the one who peers into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres, and is not a hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, such a one shall be blessed in what he does.
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- If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, his religion is vain.
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- Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
EPISTULA IACOBI 1