Colossians 3:8

Now they must put away anger, malice, slander, and filthy speech. New life demands removing sins of temper and tongue.

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• Eph 4:29Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.
• Eph 4:22to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
• Jas 1:20–21for man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness that God desires.
• Eph 5:4Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.
• Col 3:5Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
• Eph 4:26“Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger,
• Eph 4:31–32Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.
• Heb 12:1Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.
• Prov 29:22An angry man stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered man abounds in transgression.
• Col 3:9Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices,
• 1 Pet 2:1Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.
• 1 Cor 3:3for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?
• 2 Cor 12:20For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
• Jas 3:4–6Consider ships as well. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot is inclined.
• Matt 5:22But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, ‘Raca,’ will be subject to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be subject to the fire of hell.
• Jas 3:14–16But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.
• Ps 37:8Refrain from anger and abandon wrath; do not fret—it can only bring harm.
• Prov 17:14To start a quarrel is to release a flood; so abandon the dispute before it breaks out.
• Rom 13:13Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
• Gal 5:15But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.
• Mark 7:22greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.
• 1 Tim 1:13I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.
• Jas 2:7Are they not the ones who blaspheme the noble name by which you have been called?
• Jude 1:8Yet in the same way these dreamers defile their bodies, reject authority, and slander glorious beings.
• Gal 5:20idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,
• Gal 5:26Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying one another.
• 2 Tim 2:23–24But reject foolish and ignorant speculation, for you know that it breeds quarreling.
• 1 Tim 1:20Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.
• 2 Pet 2:18With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.
• Prov 19:19A man of great anger must pay the penalty; if you rescue him, you will have to do so again.
• Rev 16:9And the people were scorched by intense heat, and they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues; yet they did not repent and give Him glory.
• Lev 24:11–16The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse. So they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)
• Jude 1:13They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
• 2 Pet 2:7and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless

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