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James 1:21 KJV
James · chapter 1 · verse 21
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.James 1:21 · King James Version
James 1:21 in context
19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
20For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
23For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
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Key words (Strong's)
- superfluityperisseiaabundance, superabundantly, superfluously, superiority, preference, pre-eminence, gain…G4050 →
- naughtinesskakiamalignity, malice, ill-will, desire to injure, wickedness, depravity, wickedness that is…G2549 →
- filthinessrhypariato make filthy, befoul, to defile, dishonour, to make filthyG4507 →
- engraftedemphytosinborn, implanted by nature, implanted by others instructionG1721 →
- meeknessprautēsmildness of disposition, gentleness of spirit, meeknessG4240 →
- receivedechomaito take with the hand, to take hold of, take up, to take up, receive, used of a place…G1209 →
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In this part of the chapter we are required, I. To restrain the workings of passion. This lesson we should learn under afflictions; and this we shall learn if we are indeed begotten again by the word of truth.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 19-27