19Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger.20For a man's anger does not work the righteousness of God.21Therefore, having put aside all filth and excess of evil, receive with gentleness the implanted word that is able to save your souls.22Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.23For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one is like a man observing the face of his origin in a mirror.24For he observed himself and went away, and immediately forgot what sort he was.25But the one who has stooped into the perfect law of freedom and has continued, not becoming a forgetful hearer but a doer of work, this one will be blessed in his doing.26If anyone thinks he is religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his heart, this one's religion is futile.27Pure and undefiled religion before God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself spotless from the world.