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Colossians 3:8

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— But now you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, [and] abusive speech from your mouth.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— But now put ye also away all these; anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth:
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— but now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth:
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— But now, put off, *ye* also, all [these] things, wrath, anger, malice, blasphemy, vile language out of your mouth.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— But, now, do, ye also, put them all away,—anger, wrath, baseness, defamation, shameful talk out of your mouth:
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— but now put off, even ye, the whole—anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking—out of your mouth.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— But now put you also all away: anger, indignation, malice, blasphemy, filthy speech out of your mouth.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— But now put ye away euen all these things, wrath, anger, maliciousnes, cursed speaking, filthie speaking, out of your mouth.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— But now you also put off all these, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemie, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— But now put off from you all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, foul conversation.
John Etheridge Peshitta-Aramaic NT (1849)
— But now cease you from all these; anger, wrath, malice, reviling, impure speech:
James Murdock Peshitta-Aramaic NT (1852)
— But now, put away from you all these, wrath, anger, malice, reviling, filthy talking:

Strong's Numbers & Red-LettersGreek New TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
But 1161
{1161} Prime
δέ
de
{deh}
A primary particle (adversative or continuative); but, and, etc.
now 3570
{3570} Prime
νυνί
nuni
{noo-nee'}
A prolonged form of G3568 for emphasis; just now.
ye 5210
{5210} Prime
ὑμεῖς
humeis
{hoo-mice'}
Irregular plural of G4771; you (as subject of verb).
also 2532
{2532} Prime
καί
kai
{kahee}
Apparently a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force; and, also, even, so, then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words.
put off 659
{0659} Prime
ἀποτίθημι
apotithemi
{ap-ot-eeth'-ay-mee}
From G0575 and G5087; to put away (literally or figuratively).
z5640
<5640> Grammar
Tense - Second Aorist (See G5780)
Voice - Middle (See G5785)
Mood - Imperative (See G5794)
Count - 6
all these; 3956
{3956} Prime
πᾶς
pas
{pas}
Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.
anger, 3709
{3709} Prime
ὀργή
orge
{or-gay'}
From G3713; properly desire (as a reaching forth or excitement of the mind), that is, (by analogy) violent passion (ire, or [justifiable] abhorrence); by implication punishment.
wrath, 2372
{2372} Prime
θυμός
thumos
{thoo-mos'}
From G2380; passion (as if breathing hard).
malice, 2549
{2549} Prime
κακία
kakia
{kak-ee'-ah}
From G2556; badness, that is, (subjectively) depravity, or (actively) malignity, or (passively) trouble.
blasphemy, 988
{0988} Prime
βλασφημία
blasphemia
{blas-fay-me'-ah}
From G0989; vilification (especially against God).
filthy communication 148
{0148} Prime
αἰσχρολογία
aischrologia
{ahee-skhrol-og-ee'-ah}
From G0150 and G3056; vile conversation.
out of 1537
{1537} Prime
ἐκ
ek
{ek}
A primary preposition denoting origin (the point whence motion or action proceeds), from, out (of place, time or cause; literally or figuratively; direct or remote).
your 5216
{5216} Prime
ὑμῶν
humon
{hoo-mone'}
Genitive case of G5210; of (from or concerning) you.
mouth. 4750
{4750} Prime
στόμα
stoma
{stom'-a}
Probably stregthened from a presumed derivative of the base of G5114; the mouth (as if a gash in the face); by implication language (and its relations); figuratively an opening (in the earth); specifically the front or edge (of a weapon).
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Colossians 3:8

_ _ But now — that ye are no longer living in them.

_ _ ye also — like other believers; answering to “ye also” (Colossians 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 Ephesians 4:31).

_ _ blasphemy — rather, “reviling,” “evil-speaking,” as it is translated in Ephesians 4:31.

_ _ filthy communication — The context favors the translation, “abusive language,” rather than impure conversation. “Foul language” best retains the ambiguity of the original.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

Colossians 3:8-11

_ _ As we are to mortify inordinate appetites, so we are to mortify inordinate passions (Colossians 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 of the soul, and supports the dominion of right reason and conscience over appetite and passion. Anger and wrath are bad, but malice is worse, because it is more rooted and deliberate; it is anger heightened and settled. And, as the corrupt principles in the heart must be cut off, so the product of them in the tongue; as blasphemy, which seems there to mean, not so much speaking ill of God as speaking ill of men, giving ill language to them, or raising ill reports of them, and injuring their good name by any evil arts, — filthy communication, that is, all lewd and wanton discourse, which comes from a polluted mind in the speaker and propagates the same defilements in the hearers, — and lying: Lie not one to another (Colossians 3:9), for it is contrary both to the law of truth and the law of love, it is both unjust and unkind, and naturally tends to destroy all faith and friendship among mankind. Lying makes us like the devil (who is the father of lies), and is a prime part of the devil's image upon our souls; and therefore we are cautioned against this sin by this general reason: Seeing you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man, Colossians 3:10. The consideration that we have by profession put away sin and espoused the cause and interest of Christ, that we have renounced all sin and stand engaged to Christ, should fortify us against this sin of lying. Those who have put off the old man have put it off with its deeds; and those who have put on the new man must put on all its deeds — not only espouse good principles but act them in a good conversation. The new man is said to be renewed in knowledge, because an ignorant soul cannot be a good soul. Without knowledge the heart cannot be good, Proverbs 19:2. The grace of God works upon the will and affections by renewing the understanding. Light is the first thing in the new creation, as it was in the first: after the image of him who created him. It was the honour of man in innocence that he was made after the image of God; but that image was defaced and lost by sin, and is renewed by sanctifying grace: so that a renewed soul is something like what Adam was in the day he was created. In the privilege and duty of sanctification there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free, Colossians 3:11. There is now no difference arising from different country or different condition and circumstance of life: it is as much the duty of the one as of the other to be holy, and as much the privilege of the one as of the other to receive from God the grace to be so. Christ came to take down all partition-walls, that all might stand on the same level before God, both in duty and privilege. And for this reason, because Christ is all in all. Christ is a Christian's all, his only Lord and Saviour, and all his hope and happiness. And to those who are sanctified, one as well as another and whatever they are in other respects, he is all in all, the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end: he is all in all things to them.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Colossians 3:8

Wrath — Is lasting anger. Filthy discourse — And was there need to warn even these saints of God against so gross and palpable a sin as this? O what is man, till perfect love casts out both fear and sin.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

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put:

Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Colossians 3:9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
Ephesians 4:22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
James 1:21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
1 Peter 2:1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

anger:

Psalms 37:8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
Proverbs 17:14 The beginning of strife [is as] when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
Proverbs 19:19 A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver [him], yet thou must do it again.
Proverbs 29:22 An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
Matthew 5:22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but 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 wantonness, not in strife and envying.
1 Corinthians 3:3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
2 Corinthians 12:20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and [that] I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest [there be] debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
Galatians 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
Galatians 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Galatians 5:26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Ephesians 4:26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Ephesians 4:31-32 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: ... And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
2 Timothy 2:23-24 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes. ... And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all [men], apt to teach, patient,
James 1:20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
James 3:14-16 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. ... For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work.

blasphemy:

Leviticus 24:11-16 And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name [of the LORD], and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name [was] Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:) ... And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, [and] all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name [of the LORD], shall be put to death.
Mark 7:22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
1 Timothy 1:13 Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did [it] ignorantly in unbelief.
1 Timothy 1:20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
James 2:7 Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?
Jude 1:8 Likewise also these [filthy] dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
Revelation 16:9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

filthy:

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 5:4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
James 3:4-6 Behold also the ships, which though [they be] so great, and [are] driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. ... And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
2 Peter 2:7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
2 Peter 2:18 For when they speak great swelling [words] of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
Jude 1:8 Likewise also these [filthy] dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
Jude 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
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Lv 24:11. Ps 37:8. Pv 17:14; 19:19; 29:22. Mt 5:22. Mk 7:22. Ro 13:13. 1Co 3:3. 2Co 12:20. Ga 5:15, 20, 26. Ep 4:22, 26, 29, 31; 5:4. Col 3:5, 9. 1Ti 1:13, 20. 2Ti 2:23. He 12:1. Jm 1:20, 21; 2:7; 3:4, 14. 1P 2:1. 2P 2:7, 18. Jde 1:8, 13. Rv 16:9.

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