Colossians 3:8
But now cease you from all these; anger, wrath, malice, reviling, impure speech:
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In Context
7In these also you walked aforetime, when you were conversant in them.
9and lie not one to another, but put off the old man with all his manners,
Cross References
Matthew 5:22But I say unto you, that he who is angry against his brother rashly, is obnoxious to the judgment; and he who shall say to his brother, Thou empty one! is liable to the council; and every one who shall say, Thou fool! is liable to the gihano of fire.
Romans 13:13And as in the day, let us walk decorously, not with the song, nor with drunkenness, nor in the unclean chamber, nor in envy and in contention;
2 Corinthians 12:20For I fear lest, when I come to you, I should not find you as I wish, but should find you what you would not wish: lest there be contention and envy, and wrath and angry talk, and accusations and murmurings, and pompousness and agitation:
Galatians 5:20the worship of idols, sorcery, enmity, contention, ambition, wrath, calumny, divisions, rendings,
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 →