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19 You must understand this, my beloved: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger;
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My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry,
20 for your anger does not produce God's righteousness.
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because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
21 Therefore rid yourselves of all sordidness and rank growth of wickedness, and welcome with meekness the implanted word that has the power to save your souls.
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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.
22 But be doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves.
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Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
23 For if any are hearers of the word and not doers, they are like those who look at themselves in a mirror;
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Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror
24 for they look at themselves and, on going away, immediately forget what they were like.
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and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
25 But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act—they will be blessed in their doing.
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But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.
26 If any think they are religious, and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their religion is worthless.
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Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless.
27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
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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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