8But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
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Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. …
Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-11)As we are to mortify inordinate appetites, so we are to mortify inordinate passions (Col. 3:8): But now you also put off all these, anger wrath, malice ; for these are contrary to the design of the gospel, as well as grosser impurities; and, though they are more spiritual wickedness, have not less malignity in them. The gospel religion introduces a change of the higher as well as the lower powers…
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