Parallel Verses
Common New Testament
Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and rank growth of wickedness, in humility receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
New American Standard Bible
Therefore,
King James Version
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Holman Bible
Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and evil,
International Standard Version
Therefore, rid yourselves of everything impure and every expression of wickedness, and with a gentle spirit welcome the word planted in you that can save your souls.
A Conservative Version
Therefore having put off all filthiness and profusion of evil, receive with mildness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
American Standard Version
Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Amplified
So get rid of all uncleanness and
An Understandable Version
Therefore, you should put away [from you] all moral filth and overflowing wickedness and humbly receive the word [of God], planted within you [by the Holy Spirit. See John 16:8], which is capable of saving your souls.
Anderson New Testament
Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness, and every excess caused by malice, receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Daniel Mace New Testament
throw off then your vices as dregs and scum: and receive with docility that genuine doctrine, which is effectual to your salvation.
Darby Translation
Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness and abounding of wickedness, accept with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Godbey New Testament
Therefore having laid aside all filthiness and excess of evil, receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Goodspeed New Testament
So strip yourselves of everything that soils you, and of every evil growth, and in a humble spirit let the message that has the power to save your souls be planted in your hearts.
John Wesley New Testament
Therefore laying aside all the filthiness and superfluity of wickedness, receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Julia Smith Translation
Wherefore having put away all sordid avarice, and excess of wickedness, in meekness receive the implanted word, able to save your souls.
King James 2000
Therefore put away all filthiness and extreme wickedness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Therefore, putting aside all moral uncleanness and wicked excess, welcome with humility the implanted message which is able to save your souls.
Modern King James verseion
Therefore putting aside all filthiness and overflowing of evil, receive in meekness the implanted Word, which is able to save your souls.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness, all superfluity of maliciousness, and receive with meekness the word that is grafted in you, which is able to save your souls:
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.
Montgomery New Testament
So strip off all filthiness and superfluity of wickedness, and in meekness receive the implanted Word, which is able to save your souls.
NET Bible
So put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls.
New Heart English Bible
Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Noyes New Testament
Wherefore put off all filthiness, and excess of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Sawyer New Testament
Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness and abounding vice, receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
The Emphasized Bible
Wherefore, putting away all filthiness and overflow of baseness, in meekness, welcome ye the word fitted for inward growth, which is able to save your souls:
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Wherefore laying aside all vicious pollution, and the abundance of iniquity, receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which hath power to save your souls.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Therefore, have done with all filthiness and whatever wickedness still remains, and in a humble spirit receive that Message which has been planted in your hearts and is able to save your souls.
Webster
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Weymouth New Testament
Ridding yourselves, therefore, of all that is vile and of the evil influences which prevail around you, welcome in a humble spirit the Message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls.
Williams New Testament
So strip yourselves of everything impure and all the evils prevailing around you, and in humble spirit welcome the message which when rooted in your hearts is able to save your souls.
World English Bible
Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Worrell New Testament
Wherefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive in meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Worsley New Testament
Laying aside therefore all filthiness, and excess of malice, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Youngs Literal Translation
wherefore having put aside all filthiness and superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted word, that is able to save your souls;
Themes
Meekness » General references to » Essential in hearing
Meekness » Saints should » Receive the word of God with
Names » Of the word of God » Word
Salvation » The scriptures are able to make wise unto
Salvation » Conditions of » Spiritual receptivity
The scriptures » Are called the » Word
The scriptures » Should be » Received with meekness
Sinners » Conditions of » Spiritual receptivity
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Word Count of 37 Translations in James 1:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Doers Of The Message, Not Just Hearers
20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. 21 Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and rank growth of wickedness, in humility receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. 22 But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves.
Names
Cross References
Ephesians 1:13
In him, you also have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having also believed, you were sealed in him with the promised Holy Spirit,
Ephesians 4:22
You were taught, with regard to your former manner of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful lusts;
1 Corinthians 15:2
by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.
1 Peter 2:1
Therefore, put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.
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 profits nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit, and they 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 therefore we are all here present in the sight of God, to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord."
Acts 13:26
"Brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you that fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation.
Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Romans 6:17
But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,
Romans 11:17
And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the rest to share the root of the olive tree,
Romans 13:12-13
The night is far gone, the day is at hand. Let us then cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.
2 Corinthians 7:1
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Ephesians 5:4
And there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather let there be thanksgiving.
Colossians 3:5-8
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire and greed, which is idolatry.
1 Thessalonians 1:5
for our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.
1 Thessalonians 2:13
And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe.
2 Timothy 3:15-17
and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
Titus 2:11
For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,
Hebrews 2:3
how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was confirmed to us by those who heard him,
Hebrews 4:2
For we also have had the good news preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith.
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
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.
1 Peter 1:9
as you obtain the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against your soul.