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.
21 Wherefore lay apart. He concludes by saying how the word of life is to be received. And first, indeed, he intimates that it cannot be rightly received except it be implanted, or strike roots in us. For the expression, to receive the implanted word, ought to be thus explained, “to receive it, that it may be really implanted.” For he alludes to seed often...
Learn to master passion under affliction: listen more than you speak, and do not rage against God's providence as David and Jonah did. Hear what He explains through your trials instead of hasty judgment.
AI summary
Commenting on James 1:19-27
Verse 21. Wherefore. In view of the fact that God has begotten us for his own service; in view of the fact that excited feeling tends only to wrong, let us lay aside all that is evil, and submit ourselves wholly to the influence of truth. Lay apart all filthiness. The word here rendered filthiness, occurs nowhere else in the New Testament.