Etheridge(i)
16 Do not err, my beloved brethren;
17 every good gift and perfect from above descendeth, from the Father of lights, with whom is no alteration, nor the shadow of vicissitude.
18 He willed, and begat us by the word of truth, that we might be the first-ones of his creatures.
19 And you, my beloved brethren, let every one of you be swift to hear, and slow to speak, and slow to be angry;
20 for the wrath of man the righteousness of Aloha worketh not.
21 Wherefore, remove from you all impurity and the abounding of wickedness, and with meekness receive the word which is engrafted in our nature, which is able to save your souls.
22 BUT be doers of the word, and not hearers only, neither deceive yourselves.
23 For if a man be a hearer of the word and not a doer of it, this (man) is like one who vieweth his face in a mirror;
24 for he seeth himself and passeth, and hath forgotten what (manner of person) he was.
25 But every one who looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he is not a hearer of the hearing of forgetfulness, but a doer of works; and this shall be blessed in his work.
26 And if a man thinketh that he serveth [Or, ministereth.] Aloha, and holdeth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, of this man his service is vain.
27 For the service [Teshmeshtho, ministry.] which is pure and true before Aloha the Father, is this, to visit the orphans and widows in their afflictions, and that a man keep himself from the world without blemish.