Colossians 3:8

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

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Word by word — the Greek

Word	Greek	Strong’s	Meaning
But	δὲ de	G1161	but · conjunction
now	Νυνὶ Nuni	G3570	just now · adverb
ye	ὑμεῖς hymeîs	G5210	you (as subjective of verb)
also	καὶ kai	G2532	and · conjunction
off	ἀπόθεσθε apothesthe	G659	to put away (literally or figuratively) · verb — second aorist middle imperative, 2nd person plural
these	πάντα, panta	G3956	all · adjective — accusative plural neuter
anger	ὀργήν, orgēn	G3709	properly · noun — accusative singular feminine
wrath	θυμόν, thumon	G2372	passion (as if breathing hard) · noun — accusative singular masculine
malice	κακίαν, kakian	G2549	badness · noun — accusative singular feminine
blasphemy	βλασφημίαν, blasphēmian	G988	vilification (especially against God) · noun — accusative singular feminine
communication	αἰσχρολογίαν aischrologian	G148	vile conversation · noun — accusative singular feminine
of	ἐκ ek	G1537	literal or figurative · preposition
your	ὑμῶν hymōn	G5216	of (from or concerning) you
mouth	στόματος stomatos	G4750	the mouth (as if a gash in the face) · noun — genitive singular neuter

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Cross-references

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 h…
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 covetousnes…
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:
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 ea…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Colossians 3:8-11

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 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 th…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Colossians 3:8

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 Eph 4:31). blasphemy--rather, "reviling," "evil-speaking," as it is translated in Eph 4:31. filthy communication--The context favors the translation, "abusive language," rather than impure conversation. "Foul language" best retains the ambiguity of the original.

Adam Clarke on Colossians 3:8

But now ye also put on all these - See on Eph 4:22 (note). Being now converted, sin had no more dominion over them. Anger, wrath, etc - They had not only lived in the evils mentioned Col 3:5, but also in those enumerated here; and they had not only laid aside the former, but they had laid aside the latter also. They retained no bosom, no easily besetting, sin. They were risen with Christ, and they sought the things which were above. Blasphemy - The word seems here to mean injurious and calumnious speaking.

John Gill on Colossians 3:8

But now you also put off all these,.... Intimating, that now since they were converted and delivered out of the former state in which they were once, and professed not to walk and live in sin, it became them to separate, remove, and put at a distance from them all sins, and every vice, to lay them aside as dead weights upon them, and put them off as filthy garments; for such sins are never to be put on, and cleaved to again as formerly; and that not only those, the above mentioned, fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, but the following also, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, or "evil speaking"; what vices are here intended; see Gill on Ephesia…

The Church Fathers

A hermit said, 'A monk ought not to listen to disparagement; he ought not to be disparaging, and he ought not to be scornful.'
— Desert Fathers, The Desert Fathers, Sayings of the Early Christian Monks

"But now put ye also away all these." He speaks always both universally and particularly; but this is from earnestness. "Anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth. Lie not one to another." "Shameful speaking," he saith, "out of your mouth," clearly intimating that it pollutes it.
— John Chrysostom, Homily on Colossians 8

But against others he advanceth his discourse. Under the head of "passion and railing" he means revilings, just as under "wrath" he means wickedness. And in another place, to shame them, he says, "for we are members one of another." He makes them out to be as it were manufacturers of men; casting away this one, and receiving that. He spoke of a man's "members"; here he saith, "all." He spoke of his heart, wrath, mouth, blasphemy, eyes, fornication, covetousness, hands and feet, lying, the understanding itself, and the old mind.
— John Chrysostom, Homily on Colossians 8

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Dictionary and topics

Anger — The emotion of instant displeasure on account of something evil that presents itself to our view. In itself it is an original susceptibility of our nature, just as love is, and is not necessarily…
Ephesians, Epistle to — Was written by Paul at Rome about the same time as that to the Colossians, which in many points it resembles. Contents of. The Epistle to the Colossians is mainly polemical, designed to refute…
Anger · 7:16; — 7:16;
Blasphemy · 7:25;11:36,37; — 7:25;11:36,37;
Commandments · PRECEPTS OF PAUL. EXPLICITLY STATED OR IMPLIED IN DIDACTIC EPISTLES — PRECEPTS OF PAUL. EXPLICITLY STATED OR IMPLIED IN DIDACTIC EPISTLES
Conversation · 4:29; — 4:29;
Hatred · 5:19,20; — 5:19,20;
Holiness · 2:17;5:22-25;6:15; — 2:17;5:22-25;6:15;
Malice · 4:31; — 4:31;

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Colossians 3:8

Word by word — the Greek

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Colossians 3:8-11

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Colossians 3:8

Adam Clarke on Colossians 3:8

John Gill on Colossians 3:8

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Colossians 3:8

Word by word — the Greek

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Colossians 3:8-11

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Colossians 3:8

Adam Clarke on Colossians 3:8

John Gill on Colossians 3:8

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Colossians 3:5-8

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Colossians 3:8