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New International Version NIV
19 Ye know [this], my beloved brethren. But 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 the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
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because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
21 Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive 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, deluding your own selves.
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Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
23 For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding 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 beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
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and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
25 But he that looketh into the perfect law, the [law] of liberty, and [so] continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man 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 man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth 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 religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] 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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