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Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. |
Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. |
Therefore putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness [abundance of malice], in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls. |
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Therefore get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. |
So get rid of all uncleanness and the rampant outgrowth of wickedness, and in a humble (gentle, modest) spirit receive and welcome the Word which implanted and rooted [in your hearts] contains the power to save your souls. |
Wherefore, having put away every moral uncleanness and vulgarity and wickedness which is abounding, in meekness receive the implanted Word which is able to save your souls. |
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Have done, then, with impurity and every other evil which overflows into the lives of others, and humbly accept the message that God has planted in your hearts, and which can save your souls. |
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. |
Wherefore 1352 lay apart 659 all 3956 filthiness 4507 and 2532 superfluity 4050 of naughtiness, 2549 and receive 1209 with 1722 meekness 4240 the 3588 engrafted 1721 word, 3056 which is able 1410 to save 4982 your 5216 souls. 5590 |
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