| 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 | Dowéinst, 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. |
