Colossians 3:8
but now put ye away all these, anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy language out of your mouth.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
7In which things ye also once walked, when ye lived in them;
9Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds,
Cross References
Psalms 37:8Cease from anger; give not way to wrath; Be not provoked, so as to do evil!
Proverbs 19:19A man of great wrath will suffer punishment; For if thou deliver him, yet must thou do it again.
Matthew 5:22But I say to you, that whoever is angry with his brother shall be in danger of the Judges; and whoever shall say to his brother, Simpleton! shall be in danger of the Council; and whoever shall say, Fool! shall be in danger of hell-fire.
Romans 13:13Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in lewdness and wantonness, not in strife and envy;
2 Corinthians 12:20For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and lest I too shall be found by you such as ye would not; lest there be wranglings, envying, wraths, rivalries, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;
Galatians 5:20idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, rivalry, outbursts of wrath, cabals, divisions, 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 →