James 1:22-27

22Do what God’s word says. Don’t merely listen to it, or you will fool yourselves.

23If someone listens to God’s word but doesn’t do what it says, he is like a person who looks at his face in a mirror,

24studies his features, goes away, and immediately forgets what he looks like.

25However, the person who continues to study God’s perfect laws that make people free and who remains committed to them will be blessed. People like that don’t merely listen and forget; they actually do what God’s laws say.

26If a person thinks that he is religious but can’t control his tongue, he is fooling himself. That person’s religion is worthless.

27Pure, unstained religion, according to God our Father, is to take care of orphans and widows when they suffer and to remain uncorrupted by this world.