Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry.

James 1, verse 19.

Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Scouting for Truth was written by Monica LaRose and read by Rochelle Trub.

James Chapter 1, verses 19 through 27.

My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this.

Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry,

because human anger does not produce the righteousness

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 someone who looks at his face in a mirror

and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

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.

Those who consider themselves religious, and yet do not keep a tight rain on their tongues,

deceive themselves, and their 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.

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