15. Then, when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin; and when sin is finished, it brings forth death.
16. Do not err, my beloved brothers.
17. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no change or shadow of turning.
18. Of His own will He brought us forth with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of His creatures.
19. Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
20. for the anger of man does not work the righteousness of God.
21. Therefore lay aside all filthiness and remaining wickedness and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22. Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
23. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man viewing his natural face in a mirror.
24. He views himself, and goes his way, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
25. But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in his deeds.
26. If anyone among you seems to be religious and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
27. Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world.