Ephesians 4:29
1599 Geneva Bible
29 [a]Let no [b]corrupt communication proceed out of your mouths: but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister [c]grace unto the hearers.
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- Ephesians 4:29 He bridleth the tongue also, teaching us so to temper our talk, that our hearer’s mind be not only not destroyed, but also instructed.
- Ephesians 4:29 Word for word, rotten.
- Ephesians 4:29 By grace he meaneth that, whereby men may profit to the going on forward godliness and love.
Colossians 3:5
1599 Geneva Bible
5 (A)[a] Mortify therefore your [b]members which are on the earth, fornication, uncleanness, the inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness which is idolatry.
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- Colossians 3:5 Let not your dead nature be any more effectual in you, but let your living nature be effectual. Now the force of nature is known by the motions. Therefore let the affections of the flesh die in you, and let the contrary motions which are spiritual, live. And he reckoneth up a great long scroll of vices, and their contrary virtues.
- Colossians 3:5 The motions and lusts that are in us, are in this place very properly called members, because that the reason and will of man corrupted, doth use them as the body doth his members.
1 Thessalonians 2:17
1599 Geneva Bible
17 [a]Forasmuch, brethren, as we [b]were kept from you for a season, concerning sight, but not in the heart, we enforced the more to see your face with great desire.
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- 1 Thessalonians 2:17 He meeteth with an objection, why he came not to them straightway being in so great misery, I desired oftentimes (saith he) and it lay not in me, but Satan hindered my endeavors, and therefore I sent Timothy my faithful companion unto you, because you are most dear to me.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:17 Were kept asunder from you, and as it were orphans.
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