Parallel Verses
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;
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.
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.
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.
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 wrath of a man the righteousness of God doth not work; 21 wherefore having put aside all filthiness and superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted word, that is able to save your souls; 22 and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,
Names
Cross References
Ephesians 1:13
in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth -- the good news of your salvation -- in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,
Ephesians 4:22
ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,
1 Corinthians 15:2
through which also ye are being saved, in what words I proclaimed good news to you, if ye hold fast, except ye did believe in vain,
1 Peter 2:1
Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,
Psalm 25:9
He causeth the humble to tread in judgment, And teacheth the humble His way.
Isaiah 2:20
In that day doth man cast his idols of silver, And his idols of gold, That they have made for him to worship, To moles, and to bats,
Isaiah 29:19
And the humble have added joy in Jehovah, And the poor among men In the Holy One of Israel rejoice.
Isaiah 30:22
And ye have defiled the covering of Thy graven images of silver, And the ephod of thy molten image of gold, Thou scatterest them as a sickening thing, 'Go out,' thou sayest to it.
Isaiah 61:1
The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is on me, Because Jehovah did anoint me To proclaim tidings to the humble, He sent me to bind the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives liberty, And to bound ones an opening of bands.
Ezekiel 18:31
Cast from off you all your transgressions, By which ye have transgressed, And make to you a new heart, and a new spirit, And why do ye die, O house of Israel?
Ezekiel 36:25
And I have sprinkled over you clean water, And ye have been clean; From all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, I do cleanse you.
Zephaniah 2:3
Seek Jehovah, all ye humble of the land, Who His judgment have done, Seek ye righteousness, seek humility, It may be ye are hidden in a day of the anger of Jehovah.
Matthew 5:5
Happy the meek -- because they shall inherit the land.
John 6:63
the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;
John 6:68
Simon Peter, therefore, answered him, 'Sir, unto whom shall we go? thou hast sayings of life age-during;
Acts 10:33
at once, therefore, I sent to thee; thou also didst do well, having come; now, therefore, are we all before God present to hear all things that have been commanded thee by God.'
Acts 13:26
'Men, brethren, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you fearing God, to you was the word of this salvation sent,
Romans 1:16
for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek.
Romans 6:17
and thanks to God, that ye were servants of the sin, and -- were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which ye were delivered up;
Romans 11:17
And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become --
Romans 13:12-13
the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;
2 Corinthians 7:1
Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;
Ephesians 5:4
also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting, -- the things not fit -- but rather thanksgiving;
Colossians 3:5-8
Put to death, then, your members that are upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --
1 Thessalonians 1:5
because our good news did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, even as ye have known of what sort we became among you because of you,
1 Thessalonians 2:13
Because of this also, we -- we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;
2 Timothy 3:15-17
and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise -- to salvation, through faith that is in Christ Jesus;
Titus 2:11
For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men,
Hebrews 2:3
how shall we escape, having neglected so great salvation? which a beginning receiving -- to be spoken through the Lord -- by those having heard was confirmed to us,
Hebrews 4:2
for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard,
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,
James 4:8
draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!
1 Peter 1:9
receiving the end of your faith -- salvation of souls;
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I call upon you, as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,