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B. Resisting Temptation
as God-born Ones

13. Let no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted of evil, and He Himself tempts no one.
14. But each one is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own lusts;
15. Then the lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin; and the sin, when it is fully grown, brings forth death.
16. Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
17. All good giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variation or shadow cast by turning.
18. He brought us forth by the word of truth, purposing that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.

C. Living a God-fearing Life
by the Implanted Word according to
the Perfect Law of Freedom

19. You know this, my beloved brothers; but let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;
20. For the wrath of man does not accomplish the righteousness of God.
21. Therefore putting away all filthiness and the abundance of malice, receive in meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
22. And become doers of the word and not hearers only, who delude themselves.
23. Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one is like a man considering in a mirror the face he was born with;
24. For he considers himself and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of person he is.
25. But he who looks into the perfect law, the law of freedom, and continues in it, becoming not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in his doing.
26. If anyone thinks himself to be religious and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this ones religion is vain.
27. This is pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.