James 1:21
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
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Study Note
The instruction to 'lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls' pairs the metaphors of undressing (stripping off soiled garments) and horticultural grafting to describe the reception of Scripture. The term 'engrafted' (emphutos, implanted by nature or by cultivation) may refer to the word as sown in the heart (like the parable of the soils, which Philo also used with emphutos language) or to the word as implanted in the new nature at regeneration. The qualifier 'with meekness' sets the reception posture: the word must be received not as an object to be evaluated and judged but with the openness of one who submits to its authority. The following verse (1:22-25) extends this metaphor with the mirror illustration of hearing versus doing.
Andere Übersetzungen
Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
wherefore having put aside all filthiness and superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted word, that is able to save your souls;
For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.
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But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.