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"My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry,  for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.  
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. 
Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.  
Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror  and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.  
But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he will be blessed in what he does. 
If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless.  
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." 
James 1:19-27

1/Here’s the point form version of what James is saying,
2/Be quick to listen to the word of God.
3/Be slow to speak. Think before you speak.
4/Be very slow to anger. Don’t sweat the little things. Think before you get angry. Ask yourself is it                  worth getting angry.
5/Get rid of the moral filth and evil in you life.
6/Listen to the word of God planted in your life.
7/Don’t just listen to the word of God, DO WHAT IT SAYS.
James states a man who fails to do what the word of God says is like someone who forgets what his reflection looks like in other words he has heard the word but learned nothing.
There are many people in churches who can quote chapter and verse in many things but fail to put the lessons of the Bible to work in their life. Thus the world is essentially null and void.
He admonishes us to keep a rein on one’s tongue. Our tongue can get us in a lot of trouble. Many good ministers and evangelist have had their ministries ruined by what they have said.
Finally he says,
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”
Think about it