James 1:19-27 - Doers Of The Message, Not Just Hearers

¹⁹ Know, my beloved brethren; but let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow toward wrath: ²⁰ for the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God. ²¹ Therefore having laid aside all filthiness and excess of evil, receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

²² But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. ²³ For if any one is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a mirror: ²⁴ for he recognized himself, and has gone away, and immediately forgot what kind he was. ²⁵ But the one having looked into the perfect law which is the law of liberty, and having remained in it, not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, he shall be happy in his work.

²⁶ But if any one seems to be religious, bridling not his own tongue, but deceiving his own heart, the religion of that man is vain. ²⁷ Pure religion and undefiled with God even the Father is this, to relieve the orphans and widows in their affliction, and keep himself unspotted from the world.