James 1:19-27 - Doers Of The Message, Not Just Hearers
19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. 20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. 21 Therefore laying aside all the filthiness and superfluity of wickedness, receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves: 23 For if any one be an hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a glass. 24 For he beheld himself, and went away, and immediately forgot what manner of man he was. 25 But whoso looketh diligently into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and continueth therein, this man being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the word, this man shall be happy in his doing.
26 If any one be ever so religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspoted from the world.