(19) Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
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(20) For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
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(21) Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
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(22) But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
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(23) For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
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(24) For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
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(25) But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
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(26) If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
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(27) Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
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(1) MY BRETHREN, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
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(2) For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;
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(3) And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:
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(4) Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?
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(5) Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
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(6) But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
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(7) Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?
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(8) If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
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(9) But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
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(10) For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
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(11) For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.