"The Lord of Hosts says this: Render true justice.
Show faithful love and compassion to one another.
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the stranger or the poor,
and do not plot evil in your hearts against one another."
Zechariah 7:9-10
My dearly loved brothers, understand this:
everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
for man's anger does not accomplish God's righteousness.
Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and evil excess,
humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save you.
But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer,
he is like a man looking at his own face in a mirror;
for he looks at himself, goes away,
and right away forgets what kind of man he was.
But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom
and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who acts
—this person will be blessed in what he does.
If anyone thinks he is religious, without controlling his tongue
but deceiving his heart, his religion is useless.
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this:
to look after orphans and widows in their distress
and to keep oneself unstained by the world
James 1:19-27
Show faithful love and compassion to one another.
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the stranger or the poor,
and do not plot evil in your hearts against one another."
Zechariah 7:9-10
My dearly loved brothers, understand this:
everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
for man's anger does not accomplish God's righteousness.
Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and evil excess,
humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save you.
But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer,
he is like a man looking at his own face in a mirror;
for he looks at himself, goes away,
and right away forgets what kind of man he was.
But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom
and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who acts
—this person will be blessed in what he does.
If anyone thinks he is religious, without controlling his tongue
but deceiving his heart, his religion is useless.
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this:
to look after orphans and widows in their distress
and to keep oneself unstained by the world
James 1:19-27
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