19My dearest brothers and sisters, take this to heart: Be quick to listen,o but slow to speak. And be slow to become angry, 20for human anger is never a legitimate tool to promote God’s righteous purpose.p 21So this is why we abandon everything morally impureq and all forms of wicked conduct.r Instead, with a sensitive spirits we absorb God’s Word, which has been implanted within our nature, for the Word of Life has power to continually deliver us.t 22Don’t just listen to the Word of Truth and not respond to it, for that is the essence of self-deception. So always let his Word become like
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