...exhortation to this hath the Apostle St. James, and some of the same words, but in another metaphorx, Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness,. and receive with meekness the ingrafted word. He compares the word to a plant of excellent virtue, the very tree of life, the word...

...21 is superfluous and unsuitable, and receive with meekness that word, which is implanted among you, which is able to save your souls. But be ye^ doers of the law of 22 Christ, and not hearers only, departs of the epistle are applicable to Jewish converts to...

...characters of men, let us, secondly, consider the temper of mind, in W7hich this duty is te performed. " Wherefore, lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the ingrafted word." " Filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness" stand opposed to the " meekness" here...

...hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath : 20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. 21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity...engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. , 22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 25 For if any be...

...to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of G od . \V he re fort lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness,...engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. The Gosfirl. St. John xvi. 5 IESUS saith unto his disciJ pies, Now I go my way to him that sent me,...

...wrath, cannot, for the time, be capable of doing the will of God, or bringing forth any pood work. I. 21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engraffed word, which is a&t to s«ve your souls. Wherefore, that ye may be fit, as good ground, to...

...to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath : for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity...engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. Be ye doers of the word ; and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of...

...season, out of season ; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and doctrine. James •i. 21. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able •to save your souls. Ver. 22. But be ye doers of the word, and not...

...their nature.— By creaVOL. V. 41 20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. ' 2 1 Wherefore, lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls : 22 Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only,...

...They, to whom the word does good, are described as " walking uprightly." The Apostle James says, " Lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls." Saint Peter gives the same advice. " Lay aside all...