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James 1:21

James Moffatt - New Testament

so clear away all the foul rank growth of malice, and make a soil of modesty for the Word which roots itself inwardly with power to save your souls.

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you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit,

You also have heard the message of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, and in him you also by your faith have been stamped with the seal of the long-promised holy Spirit

Beloved, as sojourners and exiles I appeal to you to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war upon the soul.

What gives life is the Spirit: flesh is of no avail at all. The words I have uttered to you are spirit and life.

So off with all malice, all guile and insincerity and envy and slander of every kind!

Therefore, with all this host of witnesses encircling us, we must strip off every handicap, strip off sin with its clinging folds, to run our appointed course steadily,

draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

For the grace of God has appeared to save all men,

For I am proud of the gospel; it is God's saving power for everyone who has faith, for the Jew first and for the Greek as well.

For we have had the good news as well as they; only, the message they heard was of no use to them, because it did not meet with faith in the hearers.

how shall we escape the penalty for neglecting a salvation which was originally proclaimed by the Lord himself and guaranteed to us by those who heard him,

the gospel by which you are saved — provided you adhere to my statement of it — unless indeed your faith was all haphazard.

Thank God, though you did serve sin, you have rendered whole-hearted obedience to what you were taught under the rule of faith;

Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, who are we to go to? You have got words of eternal life,

We thank God constantly for this too, that when you received the word of the divine message from us, you took it not as a human word but for what it really is, the word of God. It proves effective in you believers,

As these great promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates either flesh or spirit; let us be fully consecrated by reverence for God].

Brothers, sons of Abraham's race and all among you who reverence God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.

to obtain the outcome of your faith in the salvation of your souls.

Supposing some of the branches have been broken off, while you have been grafted in like a shoot of wild olive to share the rich growth of the olive-stem,

So I sent for you at once, and you have been kind enough to come. Well now, here we are all present before God to listen to what the Lord has commanded you to say."

Blessed are the humble! they will inherit the earth.

for our gospel came to you not with mere words but also with power and with the holy Spirit, with ample conviction on our part (you know what we were to you, for your own good),

no, nor indecent, silly, or scurrilous talk — all that is improper. Rather, voice your thanks to God.

Lay aside falsehood, then, let each tell his neighbour the truth, for we are members one of another.

understand that he who brings a sinner back from the error of his way saves his soul from death and hides a host of sins.

Now that your obedience to the Truth has purified your souls for a brotherly love that is sincere, love one another heartily and steadily.




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