James 1:21-27 Wherefore having put away all sordid avarice, and excess of wickedness, in meekness receive the implanted word, able to save your souls.

JuliaSmith⁽ⁱ⁾ ²¹ Wherefore having put away all sordid avarice, and excess of wickedness, in meekness receive the implanted word, able to save your souls. ²² And be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. ²³ For if any is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man observing the face of his creation in a mirror: ²⁴ For he observed himself, and went away, and straightway forgot of what kind he was. ²⁵ And he having stooped into the perfect law of liberty, and remained, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of work, he shall be happy in his doing. ²⁶ If any among you seem to be religious, bridling not his tongue, but deceiving his heart, the religion of this one vain. ²⁷ Religion pure and unpolluted before God and the Father is this, To take a view of the orphans and widows in their pressure, to keep himself free from stain from the world.