Be Doers of the Word

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Therefore, my dear brothers, let every person be quick to listen but slow to speak, slow to get angry;

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for a person’s anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness!

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So rid yourselves of all vulgarity and obvious evil, and receive meekly the Word implanted in you that can save your lives.

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Don’t deceive yourselves by only hearing what the Word says, but do it!

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For whoever hears the Word but doesn’t do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror,

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who looks at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

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But if a person looks closely into the perfect Torah, which gives freedom, and continues, becoming not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work it requires, then he will be blessed in what he does.

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Anyone who thinks he is religiously observant but does not control his tongue is deceiving himself, and his observance counts for nothing.

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The religious observance that God the Father considers pure and faultless is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being contaminated by the world.

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