ACV(i)
16 Be not led astray, my beloved brothers.
17 Every good gift and every perfect endowment is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation nor shadow of turning.
18 Having deliberated, he begot us by the word of truth for us to be a certain first fruit of his creatures.
19 Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
20 For the wrath of man does not accomplish the righteousness of God.
21 Therefore having put off all filthiness and profusion of evil, receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
23 Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this resembles a man observing his natural face in a mirror.
24 For he observes himself, and goes away, and straightaway forgets what kind of man he was.
25 But he who stooped to look into the perfect law, the one of liberty, and who remained, this man, who did not become a forgetful hearer but a doer of work, this man will be blessed in his doing.
26 If any man among you seems to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is futile.
27 Pure religion and undefiled from God and the Father is this, to go help the orphaned and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.