^{22 Ref} But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

^{23 Ref} For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

^{24 Ref} For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

^{25 Ref} But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

^{26 Ref} If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

^{27 Ref} Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.