All filthiness; of flesh and spirit, 2 Corinthians 7:1.

Superfluity of naughtiness; malice in the heart flowing out in the life.

The engrafted word; the word of divine truth engrafted-or, as some render, implanted-into your hearts, as a heavenly stock which is to bear fruits of righteousness. It is not engrafted in such a way that our freedom and responsibility in admitting or rejecting it are set aside: hence we are exhorted to receive it with meekness. Divine truth received in love and obeyed is efficacious in the salvation of men.

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