James 1:21-25

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

²¹ Therefore rid yourselves of all sordidness and rank growth of wickedness, and welcome with meekness the implanted word that has the power to save your souls.^(A)

²² But be doers of the word and not merely hearers who deceive themselves.^{(B) 23} For if any are hearers of the word and not doers, they are like those who look at themselves^[a] in a mirror;^{(C) 24} for they look at themselves and, on going away, immediately forget what they were like. ²⁵ But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act—they will be blessed in their doing.^(D)