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20 for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.
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20 for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
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21 Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls.
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21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.
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22 But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.
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22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
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23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror ;
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23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror
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24 for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was.
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24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
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25 But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does.
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25 But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it--he will be blessed in what he does.
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26 If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is worthless.
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26 If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless.
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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.
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27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
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