James 1:21-27

Rotherham(i) 21 Wherefore, putting away all filthiness and overflow of baseness, in meekness, welcome ye the word fitted for inward growth, which is able to save your souls: 22 Become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only––reasoning yourselves astray; 23 Because, if any is, a word–hearer, and not a doer, the same, is like unto a man observing his natural face in a mirror,–– 24 For he observed himself, and is gone away, and, straightway, it hath escaped him,––what manner of man, he was! 25 But, he that hath obtained a nearer view into the perfect law of liberty, and hath taken up his abode by it, becoming––not a forgetful hearer, but a work doer, the same, happy in his doing, shall be. 26 If any thinketh he is observant of religion, not curbing his own tongue, but deceiving his own heart, this one’s, religious observance is, vain: 27 Religious observance, pure and undefiled with our God and Father, is, this––to be visiting orphans and widows in their affliction, unspotted, to keep, himself, from the world.