Colossians 3:8

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

Cross-references · 34

• Eph 4:29Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.
• Eph 4:22that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
• Jas 1:20–21for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.
• Eph 5:4nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.
• Col 3:5Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
• Eph 4:26“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,
• Eph 4:31–32Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.
• Heb 12:1Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
• Prov 29:22An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.
• Col 3:9Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
• 1 Pet 2:1Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
• 1 Cor 3:3for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?
• 2 Cor 12:20For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;
• Jas 3:4–6Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires.
• Matt 5:22But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment; and whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.
• Jas 3:14–16But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
• Ps 37:8Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret, it leads only to evildoing.
• Prov 17:14The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
• Rom 13:13Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.
• Gal 5:15But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.
• Mark 7:22covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
• 1 Tim 1:13although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
• Jas 2:7Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?
• Jude 1:8Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.
• Gal 5:20idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,
• Gal 5:26Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
• 2 Tim 2:23–24But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.
• 1 Tim 1:20of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.
• 2 Pet 2:18For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
• Prov 19:19A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again.
• Rev 16:9People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn’t repent and give him glory.
• Lev 24:11–16The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
• Jude 1:13wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
• 2 Pet 2:7and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked

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