James 1:21

Tree of Life Version

So put away all moral filth and excess of evil and receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

Cross References

Psalm 25:9

He guides the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble His way.

Isaiah 2:20

In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which they made to worship, to the moles and to the bats!

Isaiah 29:19

The meek will add to their joy in Adonai, and the needy of humanity will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 30:22

You will defile your graven images overlaid with silver, and your metal images covered with gold. You will throw them away like a menstrual cloth. You will say, “Be gone!”

Isaiah 61:1

The Ruach Adonai Elohim is on me, because Adonai has anointed me to proclaim Good News to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound,

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast off from you all your transgressions that you have committed. Make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, house of Israel?

Ezekiel 36:25

Then I will sprinkle clean water on you and you will be clean from all your uncleanness and from all your idols.

Zephaniah 2:3

Seek Adonai, all you humble of the land who have executed His judgment. Seek righteousness; seek meekness! Perhaps you will be hidden on the day of Adonai’s wrath.

Matthew 5:5

“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

John 6:63

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is of no benefit. The words I have spoken to you are Spirit and are life!

John 6:68

Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life!

Acts 10:33

So I sent for you immediately, and you have been kind enough to come. Now then, we are all here before God to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord.”

Acts 13:26

“Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham and those among you who are God-fearers, it is to us the message of this salvation has been sent.

Romans 1:16

For I am not ashamed of the Good News, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who trusts—to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Romans 11:17

But if some of the branches were broken off and you—being a wild olive—were grafted in among them and became a partaker of the root of the olive tree with its richness,

Romans 6:17

But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching under which you were placed;

1 Corinthians 15:2

and by it you are being saved if you hold firm to the word I proclaimed to you—unless you believed without proper consideration.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Therefore, since we have these promises, loved ones, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Ephesians 1:13

After you heard the message of truth—the Good News of your salvation—and when you put your trust in Him, you were sealed with the promised Ruach ha-Kodesh.

Ephesians 4:22

With respect to your former lifestyle, you are to lay aside the old self corrupted by its deceitful desires,

Ephesians 4:25

So lay aside lying and “each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,” for we are members of one another.

Ephesians 5:4

Obscene, coarse, and stupid talk are also out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.

1 Thessalonians 1:5

because our Good News did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Ruach ha-Kodesh and with complete certainty—just as you know what kind of men we proved to be while among you for your sake.

1 Thessalonians 2:13

For this reason, we also thank God constantly that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it truly is—the word of God, which does its work in you who believe.

Titus 2:11

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore, since we have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also get rid of every weight and entangling sin. Let us run with endurance the race set before us,

Hebrews 2:3

how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? It was first spoken through the Lord and confirmed to us by those who heard.

Hebrews 4:2

For we also have had Good News proclaimed to us, just as they did. But the word they heard did not help them, because they were not unified with those who listened in faith.

James 4:8

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

James 5:20

let him know that the one who turns a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins.

1 Peter 1:22

Now that you have purified your souls in obedience to the truth, leading to sincere brotherly love, love one another fervently from a pure heart.

1 Peter 1:9

receiving the outcome of your faith—the salvation of your souls.

1 Peter 2:1

So get rid of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all lashon ha-ra .

1 Peter 2:11

Loved ones, I urge you as strangers and sojourners to keep away from the fleshly cravings that war against the soul.