Colossians 3:8
Good News Translation
But now you must get rid of all these things: anger, passion, and hateful feelings. No insults or obscene talk must ever come from your lips.

New Revised Standard Version
But now you must get rid of all such things—anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive language from your mouth.

Contemporary English Version
But now you must stop doing such things. You must quit being angry, hateful, and evil. You must no longer say insulting or cruel things about others.

New American Bible
But now you must put them all away: anger, fury, malice, slander, and obscene language out of your mouths.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But now put you also all away: anger, indignation, malice, blasphemy, filthy speech out of your mouth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But now put you also all away: anger, indignation, malice, blasphemy, filthy speech out of your mouth.

put.

Colossians 3:5,9 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is the service of idols. . . .

Ephesians 4:22 To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error.

Hebrews 12:1 And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us:

James 1:21 Wherefore, casting away all uncleanness and abundance of naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

1 Peter 2:1 Wherefore laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations and envies and all detractions,

anger.

Psalm 37:8 Cease from anger, and leave rage; have no emulation to do evil.

Proverbs 17:14 The beginning of quarrels is as when one letteth out water: and before he suffereth reproach, he forsaketh judgment.

Proverbs 19:19 He that is impatient, shall suffer damage: and when he shall take away, he shall add another thing.

Proverbs 29:22 A passionate man provoketh quarrels: and he that is easily stirred up to wrath, shall be more prone to sin.

Matthew 5:22 But I say to you, that whosoever is angry with his brother, shall be in danger of the judgment. And whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council. And whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

Romans 13:13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day: not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention and envy.

1 Corinthians 3:3 For, whereas there is among you envying and contention, are you not carnal and walk you not according to man?

2 Corinthians 12:20 For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you.

Galatians 5:15,20,26 But if you bite and devour one another: take heed you be not consumed one of another. . . .

Ephesians 4:26,31,32 Be angry: and sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger. . . .

2 Timothy 2:23,24 And avoid foolish and unlearned questions, knowing that they beget strifes. . . .

James 1:20 For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God.

James 3:14-16 But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contention in your hearts: glory not and be not liars against the truth. . . .

blasphemy.

Leviticus 24:11-16 And when he had blasphemed the name, and had cursed it, he was brought to Moses. (Now his mother was called Salumith, the daughter of Dabri, of the tribe of Dan.) . . .

Mark 7:22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.

1 Timothy 1:13,20 Who before was a blasphemer and a persecutor and contumelious. But I obtained the mercy of God, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. . . .

James 2:7 Do not they blaspheme the good name that is invoked upon you?

Jude 1:8 In like manner, these men also defile the flesh and despise dominion and blaspheme majesty.

Revelation 16:9 And men were scorched with great heat: and they blasphemed the name of God, who hath power over these plagues. Neither did they penance to give him glory.

filthy.

Ephesians 4:29 Let no evil speech proceed from your mouth: but that which is good, to the edification of faith: that it may administer grace to the hearers.

Ephesians 5:4 Or obscenity or foolish talking or scurrility, which is to no purpose: but rather giving of thanks.

James 3:4-6 Behold also ships, whereas they are great and are driven by strong winds, yet are they turned about with a small helm, whithersoever the force of the governor willeth. . . .

2 Peter 2:7,18 And delivered just Lot, oppressed by the injustice and lewd conversation of the wicked: . . .

Jude 1:8,13 In like manner, these men also defile the flesh and despise dominion and blaspheme majesty. . . .

Context
Putting on the New Self
7In which you also walked some time, when you lived in them. 8But now put you also all away: anger, indignation, malice, blasphemy, filthy speech out of your mouth. 9Lie not one to another: stripping yourselves of the old man with his deeds,…
Cross References
Psalm 37:8
Cease from anger, and leave rage; have no emulation to do evil.

Ephesians 4:22
To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error.

Ephesians 4:25
Wherefore, putting away lying, speak ye the truth, every man with his neighbour. For we are members one of another.

Ephesians 4:29
Let no evil speech proceed from your mouth: but that which is good, to the edification of faith: that it may administer grace to the hearers.

Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitterness and anger and indignation and clamour and blasphemy be put away from you, with all malice.

Ephesians 5:4
Or obscenity or foolish talking or scurrility, which is to no purpose: but rather giving of thanks.

Colossians 3:7
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