James 1:21 BBE

¹⁹  You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;

²⁰  For the righteousness of God does not come about by the wrath of man.

²¹  For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.

²²  But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.

²³  Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a glass;