Colossians 3:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

Colossians 3:8 —

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Ephesians 4:29
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.
Ephesians 4:22
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
James 1:20-21
For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. …
Ephesians 5:4
Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
Colossians 3:5
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

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Commentary

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 o…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. But now--that ye are no longer living in them. ye also--like other believers; answering to “ye also” (Col 3:7) like other unbelievers formerly. put off--“Do ye also put away all these,” namely, those just enumerated, and those which follow [Alford]. anger, wrath--(See on Ep 4:31). blasphemy--rather, “reviling,” “evil-speaking,” as it is translated in Ep 4:31. filthy communication--The context f…