Colossians 3:8

New English Translation

But now, put off all such things as anger, rage, malice, slander, abusive language from your mouth.

Cross References

Psalm 37:8

Do not be angry and frustrated! Do not fret! That only leads to trouble!

Proverbs 17:14

Starting a quarrel is like letting out water; stop it before strife breaks out!

Proverbs 19:19

A person with great anger bears the penalty, but if you deliver him from it once, you will have to do it again.

Proverbs 29:22

An angry person stirs up dissension, and a wrathful person is abounding in transgression.

Matthew 5:22

But I say to you that anyone who is angry with a brother will be subjected to judgment. And whoever insults a brother will be brought before the council, and whoever says ‘Fool’ will be sent to fiery hell.

Mark 7:22

adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly.

Romans 13:13

Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I am afraid that somehow when I come I will not find you what I wish, and you will find me not what you wish. I am afraid that somehow there may be quarreling, jealousy, intense anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

Galatians 5:15

However, if you continually bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.

Galatians 5:20

idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, factions,

Galatians 5:26

Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, being jealous of one another.

Ephesians 4:22

You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

Ephesians 4:26

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on the cause of your anger.

Ephesians 4:29

You must let no unwholesome word come out of your mouth, but only what is beneficial for the building up of the one in need, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Ephesians 5:4

Neither should there be vulgar speech, foolish talk, or coarse jesting – all of which are out of character – but rather thanksgiving.

Colossians 3:5

So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

Colossians 3:9

Do not lie to one another since you have put off the old man with its practices

1 Timothy 1:13

even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I was treated with mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief,

1 Timothy 1:20

Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we must get rid of every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with endurance the race set out for us,

James 2:7

Do they not blaspheme the good name of the one you belong to?

1 Peter 2:1

So get rid of all evil and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

2 Peter 2:18

For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.

2 Peter 2:7

and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man in anguish over the debauched lifestyle of lawless men,

Jude 1:13

wild sea waves, spewing out the foam of their shame; wayward stars for whom the utter depths of eternal darkness have been reserved.

Jude 1:8

Yet these men, as a result of their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and insult the glorious ones.

Revelation 16:9

Thus people were scorched by the terrible heat, yet they blasphemed the name of God, who has ruling authority over these plagues, and they would not repent and give him glory.