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Colossians 3:8

Colossians 3:8
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

But now you also put off all these,.... Intimating, that now since they were converted and delivered out of the former state in which they were once, and professed not to walk and live in sin, it…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

But now ye also put off all these - All these which follow, as being also inconsistent with the Christian calling. Anger, wrath - Notes, Eph 4:26. Malice - Notes, Eph 4:31. Blasphemy - Notes, Mat 9:3.…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

But now ye also put on all these - See on Eph 4:22 (note). Being now converted, sin had no more dominion over them.

Anger, wrath, etc - They had not only lived in the evils mentioned Col 3:5, but also…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Colossians 3:8-11

As we are to mortify inordinate appetites, so we are to mortify inordinate passions (Col 3:8): But now you also put off all these, anger wrath, malice; for these are contrary to the design of the…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

But now Under the divinely altered case of their conversion and union with Christ.

you also As well as all other true believers.

put off The Greek is imperative, and so the English is to be taken; but…