February 19, 2014

1:19	You know this, my most beloved brothers. So let every man be quick to listen, but slow to speak and slow to anger.
1:20	For the anger of man does not accomplish the justice of God.
1:21	Because of this, having cast away all uncleanness and an abundance of malice, receive with meekness the newly-grafted Word, which is able to save your souls.
1:22	So be doers of the Word, and not listeners only, deceiving yourselves.
1:23	For if anyone is a listener of the Word, but not also a doer, he is comparable to a man gazing into a mirror upon the face that he was born with;
1:24	and after considering himself, he went away and promptly forgot what he had seen.
1:25	But he who gazes upon the perfect law of liberty, and who remains in it, is not a forgetful hearer, but instead a doer of the work. He shall be blessed in what he does.
1:26	But if anyone considers himself to be religious, but he does not restrain his tongue, but instead seduces his own heart: such a one’s religion is vanity.
1:27	This is religion, clean and undefiled before God the Father: to visit orphans and widows in their tribulations, and to keep yourself immaculate, apart from this age.

8:22	And they went to Bethsaida. And they brought a blind man to him. And they petitioned him, so that he would touch him.
8:23	And taking the blind man by the hand, he led him beyond the village. And putting spit on his eyes, laying his hands on him, he asked him if he could see anything.
8:24	And looking up, he said, “I see men but they are like walking trees.”
8:25	Next he placed his hands again over his eyes, and he began to see. And he was restored, so that he could see everything clearly.
8:26	And he sent him to his house, saying, “Go into your own house, and if you enter into the town, tell no one.”

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