1:19 Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! ¹  Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger. 1:20 For human ²  anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness. ³  1:21 So put away all filth and evil excess and humbly ⁴  welcome the message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls. 1:22 But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves. 1:23 For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone ⁵  who gazes at his own face ⁶  in a mirror. 1:24 For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets ⁷  what sort of person he was. 1:25 But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, ⁸  and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out – he ⁹  will be blessed in what he does. ¹⁰  1:26 If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile. 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before ¹¹  God the Father ¹²  is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.