V19-20 Watch our anger – be “quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry” (See also Eph 4:26)
V22 Do the word – “do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.”
V23-25 The law of God is like a mirror that shows us as we are. We can see our blemishes. After conviction of sin and repentance, this law gives freedom and blessings by inciting us to obey God’s law and do the word.
(V27 Examples of doing the word include looking after orphans and widows and being transformed and unpolluted by the world.)
How can we be different from the world? –> See 1 John 2:15-17, Romans 12:2. Renewing our mind takes work!
V26 Reign on tongue is important. Someone who does not control his tongue, “his religion is worthless.”
