Colossians 3:8
but now put off, even you, the whole—anger, wrath, malice, slander, filthy talking—out of your mouth.
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7in which you also—you once walked, when you lived in them;
9Do not lie to one another, having put off the old man with his practices,
Cross References
Psalms 37:8Desist from anger, and forsake fury, || Do not fret yourself to only do evil.
Proverbs 19:19A man of great wrath is bearing punishment, || For if you deliver, yet again you add.
Matthew 5:22but I say to you that everyone who is angry at his brother without cause will be in danger of the judgment, and whoever may say to his brother, Stupid, will be in danger of the Sanhedrin, and whoever may say, Moron, will be in danger of the Gehenna of fire.
Romans 13:13as in daytime, let us walk properly; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and licentiousness, not in strife and jealousy;
2 Corinthians 12:20for I fear lest, having come, I may not find you such as I wish, and I may be found by you such as you do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, slanders, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,
Galatians 5:20idolatry, witchcraft, enmities, strife, jealousy, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects,
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 →