James 1:21 - The Text-Critical English New Testament Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and rampant wickedness, humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So get rid of all uncleanness and the rampant outgrowth of wickedness, and in a humble (gentle, modest) spirit receive and welcome the Word which implanted and rooted [in your hearts] contains the power to save your souls. American Standard Version (1901) Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. Common English Bible Therefore, with humility, set aside all moral filth and the growth of wickedness, and welcome the word planted deep inside you—the very word that is able to save you. Catholic Public Domain Version Because of this, having cast away all uncleanness and an abundance of malice, receive with meekness the newly-grafted Word, which is able to save your souls. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wherefore casting away all uncleanness, and abundance of naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls. |
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is of no benefit. The words that I speak to you are spirit and life.
Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? Yoʋ have the words of eternal life.
So I sent for yoʋ at once, and yoʋ have done well by coming. Now then, we are all here in the presence of God to hear all that yoʋ have been commanded by God.”
“Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to you the message of this salvation has been sent.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, both to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Now if some of the branches have been broken off, and yoʋ, a wild olive branch, have been grafted in among them and have become a fellow partaker of the root and richness of the olive tree,
But thanks be to God that, though you were slaves of sin, you have become obedient from the heart to the pattern of teaching to which you were entrusted,
and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the message that I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
Therefore, since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of the flesh and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
And when you heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in Christ, you were also sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
to put off your old self, which belongs to your former way of life and is being corrupted by its deceitful desires,
Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each of you must speak the truth with his neighbor, because we are members of one another.
Nor should there be any obscenity, foolish talk, or coarse joking, which are not fitting, but there should be thanksgiving instead.
because our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with much conviction. You know what sort of men we proved to be among you for your sake.
We also give thanks to God without ceasing because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe.
Therefore, since we have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that lies before us,
how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? This salvation was first announced by the Lord, and it was confirmed to us by those who heard him.
For we also have received good news just as they did. But the message they heard did not benefit them, since they were not united by faith with those who listened.
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
be assured that whoever turns a sinner back from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
Since you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth through the Spirit, resulting in genuine brotherly love, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
because you are receiving the end result of your faith—the salvation of your souls.
So put aside all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.
Beloved, I urge you as strangers and sojourners to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul,