James 1:21

¹⁹ My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,

²⁰ for man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness that God desires.

Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.

²² Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

²³ For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror,

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.
KJV: Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
WEB: Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
ASV: Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
DARBY: Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness and abounding of wickedness, accept with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
BLB: Therefore, having put off all filthiness and abundance of wickedness, accept in meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your⁺ souls.

ÅB: Avlegg derfor all urenhet og all levning av ondskap, og ta med saktmodighet imot det ord som er innplantet i dere, og som er mektig til å frelse deres sjeler!
OTB: Derfor, kvitt dere med all moralsk urenhet og det onde som er så utbredt, og ta ydmykt imot ordet plantet i dere, som kan frelse deres sjeler.
B1930: Avlegg derfor all urenhet og all levning av ondskap, og ta med saktmodighet imot det ord som er innplantet i eder, og som er mektig til å frelse eders sjeler!

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to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
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Ephesians 1:13
And in Him, having heard and believed the word of truth—the gospel of your salvation—you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
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1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
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John 6:63
The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
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Psalms 25:9
He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them His way.
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Colossians 3:5–8
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
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1 Peter 2:1
Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.
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Hebrews 12:1
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.
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