Colossians 3:8
Colossians · New Testament · Chapter 3
“But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.”Colossians 3:8
What Does Colossians 3:8 Mean?
Colossians 3:8 is found in the book of Colossians, chapter 3, verse 8 of the New Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Colossians 3:8 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Ephesians 4:29“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.”Ephesians 4:31“Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:”James 1:19“Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:”Ephesians 5:4“Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.”Ephesians 4:22“That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;”Romans 13:12“The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.”Philippians 2:3“Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.”James 1:20“For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.”Colossians 3:5“Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:”Psalms 37:8“Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.”Ephesians 4:26“Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:”Hebrews 12:1“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,”Proverbs 29:22“An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.”Colossians 2:11“In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:”James 3:6“And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.”Colossians 3:9“Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;”Proverbs 4:24“Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.”1 Peter 2:1“Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,”1 Corinthians 3:3“For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?”2 Corinthians 12:20“For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:”
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