Colossians 3:8

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

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WEBBE

but now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

BSB

But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.

ASV

but now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth:

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Νυνὶ Nuni Now G3570 δὲ de however G1161 ἀπόθεσθε apothesthe do put off G659 καὶ kai also G2532 ὑμεῖς humeis you yourselves G4771 τὰ ta (the) G3588 πάντα panta all [these] things G3956 ὀργήν orgēn anger G3709 θυμόν thumon rage G2372 κακίαν kakian malice G2549 βλασφημίαν blasphēmian slander G988 αἰσχρολογίαν aischrologian foul language G148 ἐκ ek out of G1537 τοῦ tou the G3588 στόματος stomatos mouth G4750 ὑμῶν.¶ humōn of you G4771

The early church

"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 · d. 407Homilies on Colossians
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 · d. 407Homilies on Colossians

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 5–11

It is our duty to mortify our members which incline to the things of the world. Mortify them, kill them, suppress them, as weeds or vermin which spread and destroy all about them. Continual opposition must be made to all corrupt workings, and no provision made for carnal indulgences. Occasions of sin must be avoided: the lusts of the flesh, and the love of the world; and covetousness, which is idolatry; love of present good, and of outward enjoyments. It is necessary to mortify sins, because if we do not kill them, they will kill us. The gospel changes the higher as well as the lower powers of the soul, and supports the rule of right reason and conscience, over appetite and passion. There is now no difference from country, or conditions and circumstances of life. It is the duty of every one to be holy, because Christ is a Christian's All, his only Lord and Saviour, and all his hope and happiness.

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CommandmentsAngerMaliceBlasphemyHatredConversation

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.