If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile.

But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves.

For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets what sort of person he was.

If so, have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil motives?

So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.

Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.