MNT(i)
16 Do not be deceived, my brothers!
17 Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above, and is ever coming down to us from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom is no variation nor shadow of eclipse.
18 Because he willed, he gave us birth through the word of truth, so that we should be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures.
19 Mark this well, my dear brothers. Let every man be swift in hearing, slow in speaking, slow in growing angry;
20 for a man's anger does not further the righteous purpose of God.
21 So strip off all filthiness and superfluity of wickedness, and in meekness receive the implanted Word, which is able to save your souls.
22 And become doers of the Word, and not merely hearers, deceiving yourselves.
23 Because if any one is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;
24 for after he has looked carefully at himself, he goes away, and at once forgets what he is like.
25 But the man who looks closely into the perfect law—the law of liberty—and continues looking, this man will be blessed in his deed because he is not a hearer who forgets, but a doer who does.
26 If a man thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own religion,
27 and undefiled before our God and Father, to look after orphans and widows in their affliction, and ever to keep himself unspotted from the world.