Colossians 3:8
But now, put away from you all these, wrath, anger, malice, reviling, filthy talking:
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
7And in these things ye also formerly walked, when ye lived in them.
9and lie not one to another; but put off the old man, with all his practices;
Cross References
Matthew 5:22But I say to you, That every one who is angry with his brother rashly, is obnoxious to judgment: and every one that saith to his brother, Raka! is obnoxious to the council: and every one that shall say, Fool is obnoxious to hell-fire.
Romans 13:13And let us walk decorously, as in daylight; not in merriment, nor in drunkenness, nor in impurity of the bed, nor in envy and strife.
2 Corinthians 12:20For I fear, lest I should come to you and not find you such as I would wish; and lest I also should be found by you, such as ye would not wish; lest there should be contention, and envying, and anger, and obstinacy, and slandering, and murmuring, and insolence, and commotion;
Galatians 5:20idol-worship, magic, malice, contention, rivalry, wrath, strife, divisions, discords,
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 →