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Colossians 3:8

James Moffatt - New Testament

but off with them all now, off with anger, rage, malice, slander, foul talk!

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Let no bad word pass your lips, but only such speech as is good for edification, as occasion may require, words that are gracious and a means of grace to those who hear them.

you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit,

no, nor indecent, silly, or scurrilous talk — all that is improper. Rather, voice your thanks to God.

So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),

Be angry but do not sin; never let the sun set upon your exasperation,

Therefore, with all this host of witnesses encircling us, we must strip off every handicap, strip off sin with its clinging folds, to run our appointed course steadily,

Tell no lies to one another; you have stripped off the old nature with its practices,

So off with all malice, all guile and insincerity and envy and slander of every kind!

For I am afraid I may perhaps come and find you are not what I could wish, while you may find I am not what you could wish; I am afraid of finding quarrels, jealousy, temper, rivalry, slanders, gossiping, arrogance, and disorder —

you are still worldly. For with jealousy and quarrels in your midst, are you not worldly, are you not behaving like ordinary men?

whoever maligns his brother must come before the San hedrin, whoever curses his brother must go to the fire of Gehenna.' But I tell you, whoever is angry with his brother [without cause] will be sentenced by God.

(whereas, if you snap at each other and prey upon each other, take care in case you destroy one another).

let us live decorously as in the open light of day — no revelry or bouts of drinking, no debauchery or sensuality, no quarrelling or jealousy.

Despite it all, these visionaries pollute their flesh, scorn the Powers celestial, and scoff at the angelic Glories.

By talking arrogant futilities they beguile with the sensual lure of fleshly passion those who are just escaping from the company of misconduct —

Is it not they who scoff at the noble Name you bear?

including Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have made over to Satan. That will teach them to stop their blasphemous ongoings!

though I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a wanton aggressor. I obtained mercy because in my unbelief I had acted out of ignorance;

let us have no vanity, no provoking, no envy of one another.

idolatry, magic, quarrels, dissension, jealousy, temper, rivalry, factions, party-spirit,

adultery, lust, malice, deceit, sensuality, envying, slander, arrogance, recklessness,

till men, scorched by the fierce heat, blasphemed the name of the God who had control of these plagues; yet they would not repent and give him glory.

wild waves foaming out their own shame, wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved eternally.

but rescued righteous Lot who was sore burdened by the immoral behaviour of the lawless

Lay aside falsehood, then, let each tell his neighbour the truth, for we are members one of another.




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