James 1:21-25 So lay aside all that is vile and all that remains of malice, and receive with gentleness the implanted message which can save your souls.

Riverside⁽ⁱ⁾ ²¹ So lay aside all that is vile and all that remains of malice, and receive with gentleness the implanted message which can save your souls. ²² Become doers of the message and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. ²³ For if one is a hearer of the message and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror. ²⁴ He looks at himself and is gone, and immediately forgets what sort of man he was. ²⁵ But he who looks earnestly into the perfect law of liberty and continues to do so, and becomes not a forgetful hearer but a doer of work — that man will be blessed in what he does.