^{I Believe the Bible}

^{James 1:19-27}

¹⁹  You know this, my beloved brothers and sisters. Now everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

 ²⁰ for a man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness of God. 

²¹ Therefore, ridding yourselves of all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in ^[c]humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls. 

²² But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not just hearers who deceive themselves. 

²³ For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his ^[d]natural face in a mirror; 

²⁴ for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. 

²⁵ But one who has looked intently at the perfect law, the law of freedom, and has continued in it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an active doer, this person will be blessed in what he does.

²⁶ If anyone thinks himself to be religious, yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this person’s religion is worthless. 

²⁷ Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.