James 1:19-27 - Doers Of The Message, Not Just Hearers
19 Mark this well, my dear brothers. Let every man be swift in hearing, slow in speaking, slow in growing angry; 20 for a man's anger does not further the righteous purpose of God. 21 So strip off all filthiness and superfluity of wickedness, and in meekness receive the implanted Word, which is able to save your souls.
22 And become doers of the Word, and not merely hearers, deceiving yourselves. 23 Because if any one is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; 24 for after he has looked carefully at himself, he goes away, and at once forgets what he is like. 25 But the man who looks closely into the perfect law??he law of liberty??nd continues looking, this man will be blessed in his deed because he is not a hearer who forgets, but a doer who does.
26 If a man thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own religion, 27 and undefiled before our God and Father, to look after orphans and widows in their affliction, and ever to keep himself unspotted from the world.