Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha GNTA
New International Version NIV
19 Remember this, my dear friends! Everyone must be quick to listen, but slow to speak and slow to become angry.
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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 Human anger does not achieve God's righteous purpose.
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because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
21 So get rid of every filthy habit and all wicked conduct. Submit to God and accept the word that he plants in your hearts, which is able to save you.
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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 Do not deceive yourselves by just listening to his word; instead, put it into practice.
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Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
23 If you listen to the word, but do not put it into practice you are like people who look in a mirror and see themselves as they are.
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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 They take a good look at themselves and then go away and at once forget what they look like.
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and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
25 But if you look closely into the perfect law that sets people free, and keep on paying attention to it and do not simply listen and then forget it, but put it into practice - you will be blessed by God in what you do.
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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 Do any of you think you are religious? If you do not control your tongue, your religion is worthless and you deceive yourself.
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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 What God the Father considers to be pure and genuine religion is this: to take care of orphans and widows in their suffering and to keep oneself from being corrupted 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.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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