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James 1:21 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. "

James 1:21

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19 So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

20 for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.

21 Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;

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