The Darby Translation DBY
New International Version NIV
19 So that, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;
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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 man's wrath does not work God's righteousness.
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because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
21 Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness and abounding of wickedness, accept with meekness the implanted word, which is able 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 ye doers of [the] word and not hearers only, beguiling yourselves.
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Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
23 For if any man be a hearer of [the] word and not a doer, *he* is like to a man considering his natural face 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 he has considered himself and is gone away, and straightway he has forgotten what he was like.
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and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
25 But *he* that fixes his view on [the] perfect law, that of liberty, and abides in [it], being not a forgetful hearer but a doer of [the] work, *he* shall be blessed in his 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 one think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is vain.
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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 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from 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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