Colossians 3:8
But now, put off, *ye* also, all [these] things, wrath, anger, malice, blasphemy, vile language out of your mouth.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
7In which *ye* also once walked when ye lived in these things.
9Do not lie to one another, having put off the old man with his deeds,
Cross References
Psalms 37:8Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; fret not thyself: it [would be] only to do evil.
Proverbs 19:19A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment; for if thou deliver [him], yet thou must do it again.
Matthew 5:22But *I* say unto you, that every one that is lightly angry with his brother shall be subject to the judgment; but whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be subject to [be called before] the sanhedrim; but whosoever shall say, Fool, shall be subject to the penalty of the hell of fire.
Romans 13:13As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and lasciviousness, not in strife and emulation.
2 Corinthians 12:20For I fear lest perhaps coming I find you not such as I wish, and that *I* be found by you such as ye do not wish: lest [there might be] strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, puffings up, disturbances;
Galatians 5:20idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, disputes, schools of opinion,
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 →