001:021 Ridding yourselves, therefore, of all that is vile and of the evil influences which prevail around you, welcome in a humble spirit the Message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls. 001:022 But prove yourselves obedient to the Message, and do not be mere hearers of it, imposing a delusion upon yourselves. 001:023 For if any one listens but does not obey, he is like a man who carefully looks at his own face in a mirror. 001:024 Although he has looked carefully at himself, he goes away, and has immediately forgotten the sort of man he is. 001:025 But he who looks closely into the perfect Law--the Law of freedom-- and continues looking, he, being not a hearer who forgets, but an obedient doer, will as the result of his obedience be blessed. 001:026 If a man thinks that he is scrupulously religious, although he is not curbing his tongue but is deceiving himself, his religious service is worthless. 001:027 The religious service which is pure and stainless in the sight of our God and Father is to visit fatherless children and widowed women in their time of trouble, and to keep one's own self unspotted from the world. 002:001 My brethren, you must not make distinctions between one man and another while you are striving to maintain faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is our glory. 002:002 For suppose a man comes into one of your meetings wearing gold rings and fine clothes, and there also comes in a poor man wearing shabby clothes, 002:003 and you pay court to the one who wears the fine clothes, and say, "Sit here; this is a good place;" while to the poor man you say, "Stand there, or sit on the floor at my feet;" 002:004 is it not plain that in your hearts you have little faith, seeing that you have become judges full of wrong thoughts? 002:005 Listen, my dearly-loved brethren. Has not God chosen those whom the world regards as poor to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom which He has promised to those that love Him? 002:006 But *you* have put dishonour upon the poor man. Yet is it not the rich who grind you down? Are not they the very people who drag you into the Law courts?-- 002:007 and the very people who speak evil of the noble Name by which you are called? 002:008 If, however, you are keeping the Law as supreme, in obedience to the Commandment which says "You are to love your fellow man just as you love yourself," you are acting rightly. 002:009 But if you are making distinctions between one man and another, you are guilty of sin, and are convicted by the Law as offenders. 002:010 A man who has kept the Law as a whole, but has failed to keep some one command, has become guilty of violating all.