Colossians 3:8
but you also lay aside all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, disgraceful talk out of your mouths:
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
7In which you indeed at one time did walk about, when you lived in them:
9lie not to one another, having laid aside the old man with his habits,
Cross References
Matthew 5:22but I say unto you that every one being angry with his brother, shall be in danger of the judgment; and whosoever may say to his brother, Thou scoundrel, shall be in danger of the council; and whosoever may say, Thou fool, shall be liable unto a hell of fire.
Romans 13:13Let us walk circumspectly, as in the day; not with revelries and drunkenness, not with debaucheries and impurities, not in strife and envy:
2 Corinthians 12:20For I fear lest, having come, I may not find you as I wish, and may not be found by you as you wish; lest perhaps strife, jealousy, animosities, selfseekings, calumniations, eavesdroppings, inflations, outfallings, are among you;
Galatians 5:20idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, animosities, selfseekings, divisions, heresies,
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 →