16. Do not be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters.
17. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.
18. By His will, He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all He created.
19. Know this, my dear brothers and sisters: let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger—
20. for human anger doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.
21. So put away all moral filth and excess of evil and receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
22. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.
23. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror—
24. for once he looks at himself and goes away, he immediately forgets what sort of person he was.