Colossians 3:8

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Summary

Colossians 3:8

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

Anger

Blasphemy

Filthy

Jude 1:8

General references

Isaiah 11:6

Ezekiel 11:18

Bible References

Anger

Refrain from anger and forsake wrath. Do not fret; [it] only brings evil.

[Like] the release of water [is] the beginning of strife; before it breaks out, stop the quarrel.

A hot-tempered person pays a penalty; if you rescue [him], you will do [it] yet again.

A man of anger will stir strife, and the owner of anger, much transgression.

But I say to you that everyone who is angry at his brother will be subject to judgment, and whoever says to his brother, 'Stupid fool!' will be subject to the council, and whoever says, 'Obstinate fool!' will be subject to fiery hell.

Let us live decently, as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and licentiousness, not in strife and jealousy.

for you are still fleshly. For where [there is] jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and do you not live like [unregenerate] people?

For I am afraid lest somehow [when I] arrive, I will not find you as I want, and I may be found by you as you do not want. [I am afraid] lest somehow [there will be] strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, pride, disorder.

But if you bite and devour one another, watch out [that] you are not consumed by one another.

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun set on your anger,

But avoid foolish and uninformed controversies, [because you] know that they produce quarrels.

for human anger does not accomplish the righteousness of God.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.

Blasphemy

Then the Israelite woman's son blasphemed the name, and he cursed, so they brought him to Moses--and the name of his mother [was] Shelomith the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

adulteries, [acts of] greed, malicious [deeds], deceit, licentiousness, {envy}, abusive speech, pride, foolishness.

[although I] was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, but I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief,

Do they themselves not blaspheme the good name {of the one to whom you belong}?

Despite that, in the same way also these [men], [because of their] dreams, defile the flesh and reject authority and blaspheme majestic beings.

And people were burned up [by the] great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has the authority over these plagues, and they did not repent to give him glory.

Filthy

{No rotten word must proceed} from your mouth, but only something good for the building up of the need, in order that it may give grace to those who hear,

and obscenity, and foolish talk, or coarse jesting (which [are] not proper), but rather thanksgiving.

Behold also ships: [although they] are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the inclination of the pilot wishes.

and rescued righteous Lot, worn down by the way of life of lawless persons in licentiousness

Despite that, in the same way also these [men], [because of their] dreams, defile the flesh and reject authority and blaspheme majestic beings.

General references

And a wolf shall {stay} with a lamb, and a leopard shall lie down with a kid, and a calf and a lion and a fatling together {as a small boy leads} them.

And [when] they come there, then they will remove all of its vile idols and all of its detestable things from it.