James 1:21 Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

This verse is in the ESV. My question is for me as much as it is for anyone.

Does rampant describe my understanding of wickedness, not as I see it in the world but in me?

Other versions for this verse use the words superfluity, overflowing, remains, prevalent, growth, abounding, abundance, all, expression, remains, and excess.

Those are all adverbs which are meant to modify or qualify the word in question, in this case wickedness.

In order to put away a behavior we find in ourselves we should be able to relate to the behavior.

Are there wicked things in us that do not need a qualifier?

What I discover in myself is those fleeting thoughts that are not worthy of pondering because the adverbs only apply to my old man and not the new man in me. Those things come and go because of the only adverb that counts, implanted.

His implanted word is the reason the old man in me is nothing more than a fleeting memory.