James 1:18-27

Darby Translation

¹⁸ According to his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a certain first-fruits of *his* creatures.

¹⁹ So that, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;

²⁰ for man's wrath does not work God's righteousness.

²¹ Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness and abounding of wickedness, accept with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

²² But be ye doers of [the] word and not hearers only, beguiling yourselves.

²³ For if any man be a hearer of [the] word and not a doer, *he* is like to a man considering his natural face in a mirror:

²⁴ for he has considered himself and is gone away, and straightway he has forgotten what he was like.

²⁵ But *he* that fixes his view on [the] perfect law, that of liberty, and abides in [it], being not a forgetful hearer but a doer of [the] work, *he* shall be blessed in his doing.

²⁶ If any one think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is vain.

²⁷ Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world.