Murdock(i)
16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
17 Every good and perfect gift cometh down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom is no mutation, not even the shadow of change.
18 He saw fit, and begat us by the word of truth; that we might be the first-fruits of his creatures.
19 And be ye, my beloved brethren, every one of you, swift to hear, and slow to speak; and slow to wrath:
20 for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
21 Wherefore, remove far from you all impurity, and the abundance of wickedness; and, with meekness, receive the word that is implanted in our nature, which is able to vivify these your souls.
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only; and do not deceive yourselves.
23 For if any man shall be a hearer of the word, and not a doer of it, he will be like one who seeth his face in a mirror:
24 for he seeth himself, and passeth on, and forgetteth what a man he was.
25 But every one that looketh upon the perfect law of liberty and abideth in it, is not a hearer of something to be forgotten, but a doer of the things; and he will be blessed in his work.
26 And if any one thinketh that he worshippeth God, and doth not restrain his tongue, but his heart deceiveth him; his worship is vain.
27 For the worship that is pure and holy before God the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and that one keep himself unspotted from the world.