Charles Spurgeon Commentary James 1:21

"Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls." — James 1:21 (ASV)

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

That evil branch is cut away, now be ready to have a branch of a better kind inserted into you, even the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls, that you may bring forth better fruit than the old crabbed stock of nature can possibly yield.

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

Receive it as a graft. As the tree is prepared by the knife to receive the new shoot that is to be put into it, and receives it so as to make it its own and use it for its own fruit-bearing purposes, in the same way receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. (James 1:21)

Perhaps you have seen a man grafting a tree. What a gash he makes in the tree before he puts in the graft! How he wounds it to make the sap flow into the new wood! If the Lord has made any of your hearts bleed tonight by the sharp cutting of his Spirit, we are not sorry, if it better prepares you for receiving the grafts of his own nature and his own Word.