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

Cease from anger and forsake wrath;
Do not fret; it leads only to evildoing.

The beginning of strife is like letting out water,
So abandon the quarrel before it breaks out.

A man of great anger will bear the penalty,
For if you rescue him, you will only have to do it again.

An angry man stirs up strife,
And a hot-tempered man abounds in transgression.

But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever says to his brother, ‘You good-for-nothing,’ shall be guilty before

the supreme court; and whoever says, ‘You fool,’ shall be guilty enough to go into the

fiery hell.

Let us

behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy.

for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking

like mere men?

For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you to be not what I wish and may be found by you to be not what you wish; that perhaps there will be strife, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slanders, gossip, arrogance, disturbances;

But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

But refuse foolish and ignorant speculations, knowing that they produce quarrels.

for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.

Blasphemy

The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name and cursed. So they brought him to Moses. (Now his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit, sensuality,

envy, slander, pride and foolishness.

even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief;

Do they not blaspheme the fair name by which you have been called?

Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming, defile the flesh, and reject authority, and revile angelic majesties.

Men were scorched with fierce heat; and they blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues, and they did not repent so as to give Him glory.

Filthy

Let no

unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear.

and there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.

Look at the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by strong winds, are still directed by a very small rudder wherever the inclination of the pilot desires.

and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men

Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming, defile the flesh, and reject authority, and revile angelic majesties.

General references

And the wolf will dwell with the lamb,
And the leopard will lie down with the young goat,
And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
And a little boy will lead them.

When they come there, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations from it.