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Hearing, Doing, and Pure Religion

James 1:19-27

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Chapter 1
19 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. 20 For the anger of man does not work God's righteousness. 21 Therefore, put off all filthiness and abundance of wickedness, and in meekness receive the implanted word, the one able to save your souls. 22 But become doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing the face of his birth in a mirror. 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what sort he was. 25 But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and remains there—not becoming a forgetful hearer but a doer of work—this one will be blessed in his doing. 26 If anyone seems to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his heart, this one's religion is vain. 27 Pure and unspotted religion before God and the Father—this is it: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world.