BE QUICK TO LISTEN

 

19 My dear Brothers and Sisters,

Take Note of this:

Everyone should Be Quick to Listen,

Slow to Speak

And Slow to become Angry,

20 Because Human Anger

Does not Produce the Righteousness

That God Desires.

21 Therefore, Get Rid of All Moral Filth

And the Evil that is so Prevalent

And Humbly Accept the Word Planted in you,

WHICH CAN SAVE YOU.

22 Do not Merely Listen to the Word,

And so Deceive yourselves.

DO WHAT IT SAYS.

23 Anyone who Listens to the Word

But Does Not Do what it Says

Is like someone who Looks at his Face in a Mirror

24 And, after Looking at Himself,

Goes away and Immediately

Forgets what he Looks Like.

25 But whoever looks Intently

Into the Perfect Law

That gives Freedom, and Continues in it--

Not Forgetting what they have Heard,

But Doing it-

They will be Blessed in what they do.

(James 1:19-25, NIV)