MSTC(i)
16 Err not, my dear brethren.
17 Every good gift, and every perfect gift, is from above and cometh down from the father of light, with whom is no variableness, neither is he changed unto darkness.
18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of life, that we should be the first fruits of his creatures.
19 Wherefore, dear brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
20 For the wrath of man worketh not that which is righteous before God.
21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness, all superfluity of maliciousness, and receive with meekness the word that is grafted in you, which is able to save your souls:
22 And see that ye be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves with sophistry.
23 For if any hear the word, and do it not, he is like unto a man that beholdeth his bodily face in a glass.
24 For as soon as he hath looked on himself, he goeth his way, and forgetteth immediately what his fashion was:
25 but whoso looketh in the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein — if he be not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work — the same shall be happy in his deed.
26 If any man among you seem devout, and refrain not his tongue: but deceive his own heart, this man's devotion is in vain.
27 Pure devotion, and undefiled before God the father, is this: To visit the friendless, and widows in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted of the world.