JMNT(i)
31 Let every bitterness, swelling negative emotion (inherent fervor; or: natural propensity, disposition and impulse; or: wrath),
enraged impulse, clamorous outcry, and blasphemy (slanderous, abusive or light-hindering speech; malignment; vilifying defamation; harm-averment)
be at once lifted up and removed from you folks, together with all worthlessness (that which ought not to be; that which is of bad quality; malice; ugliness; badness; depravity)!
32 Yet keep on becoming kind folks (or: So progressively come to be {or: be birthed to be} useful and obliging ones)
unto one another people [
who are]
tenderly compassionate folks constantly dealing graciously, extending favoramong yourselves (or: forgiving yourselves),
according as God also, within and in union with the Christ, was and isgracious (or: deals favorably)
to and with (or: freely forgives)
you folks [other MSS: us].
5 1 Keep on becoming (or: Progressively come to be),
then, imitators (those made exactly alike so as to portray, express and represent by means of imitation)
of God, as beloved (or: like loveable)
children,
2 and keep on walking (walking around; = progressively living and maintaining your life)
within, and in union with, Love, according as the Christ also loves (or: to the same level and commensurately as the Anointed One loved)
you, and gives (or: gave)
Himself over (or: up; alongside)
in our behalf (over us and our [situation]; [other MSS: you]):
a bearing toward and a bringingto be face to face, and then an offering (or: sacrifice)
by (or: in; with; to; for)
God (or: an approach [present], even a sacrifice by God) [
turning]
into a fragrant odor (sweet smell).