excess in wickedness. James’s point is that we are to get rid of remaining sin. Curtis Vaughan writes, ‘The thought then is that sin, though renounced by Christians, is not entirely vanquished in them. There may be some wickedness remaining, like a bad “hangover” from pre-conversion days, as one commentator puts it.’3 James urges his readers to ‘receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls’. What does it mean to receive the Word of God? James