From the Bible version called The Message
In James, the writer says, post this at all the intersection, dear friends: lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear. God‘s righteousness doesn’t grow from human anger. So throw all spoiled virtue and cancerous evil in the garbage. In simple humility, let your gardener, God, landscape you with the word, Making a salvation-garden of your life.
Don’t fool yourself into thinking that you are a listener when you are anything but, letting the word go in one ear and out the other. Act on what you hear! Those who hear and don’t act or like those who glance in the mirror, walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they are, what they look like.
Real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the father, is this: reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight, and guard against corruption from the godless world.
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