Colossians 3:8
But now ye also, put off all these things: anger, wrath, wickedness, reviling, filthy speaking out of your mouth.
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In Context
7in which ye also once walked when ye lived in them.
9Do not lie to each other, having stripped off the old man with his practices,
Cross References
Psalms 37:8Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Fret not thyself, [it tends] only to evil-doing.
Proverbs 19:19A man of great wrath shall bear the penalty, for if thou deliver [him], thou must do it yet again.
Matthew 5:22But I say to you, that every man who is angry at his brother without cause will be liable to the judgment, and whoever speaks an insult to his brother will be liable to the council, and whoever says, Foolish man, will be liable to
Romans 13:13Let us walk decently as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in beddings and wantonness, not in strife and envy.
2 Corinthians 12:20For I fear lest somehow, having come, I may find you not such as I want, and I may be found by you such as ye do not want, lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, wraths, selfish ambitions, slanderings, whisperings, puffings up, t
Galatians 5:20idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strifes, jealousies, wraths, selfish ambitions, dissentions, factions,
Matthew Henry on Colossians 3:6-8
Necessity of Mortifying Sin. ( a. d. 62.) 5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: 7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. The apostle exhorts the Colossians to the mortification of sin, the great hindrance to seeking the things which are above. Since it is our duty to set our affections… Read the whole commentary →