18. having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain firstfruit of His creatures.
19. So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
20. for the wrath of a man the righteousness of God doth not work;
21. wherefore having put aside all filthiness and superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted word, that is able to save your souls;
22. and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,
23. because, if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one hath been like to a man viewing his natural face in a mirror,
24. for he did view himself, and hath gone away, and immediately he did forget of what kind he was;
25. and he who did look into the perfect law--that of liberty, and did continue there, this one--not a forgetful hearer becoming, but a doer of work--this one shall be happy in his doing.