Thursday, January 12, 2012

19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:Log in to add notes

20For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.Log in to add notes

21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.Log in to add notes

22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.Log in to add notes

23For 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:Log in to add notes

24For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.Log in to add notes

25But 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.Log in to add notes

26If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.Log in to add notes

27Pure 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.Log in to add notes

27And they come again to Jerusalem: and as he was walking in the temple, there come to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders,Log in to add notes

28And say unto him, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority to do these things?Log in to add notes

29And Jesus answered and said unto them, I will also ask of you one question, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.Log in to add notes

30The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men? answer me.Log in to add notes

31And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?Log in to add notes

32But if we shall say, Of men; they feared the people: for all men counted John, that he was a prophet indeed.Log in to add notes

33And they answered and said unto Jesus, We cannot tell. And Jesus answering saith unto them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.Log in to add notes