Colossians 3:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

but now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Νυνὶ δὲ ἀπόθεσθε καὶ ὑμεῖς τὰ πάντα· ὀργήν, θυμόν, κακίαν, βλασφημίαν, αἰσχρολογίαν ἐκ τοῦ στόματος ὑμῶν.

Transliteration

Nyni de apothesthe also you the panta: orgēn, thymon, kakian, blasphēmian, aischrologian from the stomatos of you.

Grammar Details

• *nyni*: temporal adverb - now
• *de*: contrastive particle - but/now
• *apothesthe*: aorist middle imperative, 2nd person plural - put off/put away
• *kai*: adverbial conjunction - also/even
• *hymeis*: nominative, 2nd person plural pronoun - you
• *panta*: accusative, neuter, plural - all things
• *orgēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - wrath/anger
• *thymon*: accusative, masculine, singular - rage/passionate anger
• *kakian*: accusative, feminine, singular - malice/evil
• *blasphēmian*: accusative, feminine, singular - blasphemy/slander
• *aischrologian*: accusative, feminine, singular - filthy language/obscene speech
• *ek*: preposition with genitive - from/out of
• *stomatos*: genitive, neuter, singular - mouth
• *hymōn*: genitive, 2nd person plural pronoun - of you/your

Word Meanings

• *apothesthe*: put off/put away/remove
• *panta*: all things/everything
• *orgēn*: wrath/anger/indignation
• *thymon*: rage/passionate anger/fury
• *kakian*: malice/evil/wickedness
• *blasphēmian*: blasphemy/slander/defamation
• *aischrologian*: filthy language/obscene speech/abusive speech

Referenced Verses

• Eph 4:29 : 29 Let {G3956} no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear.
• Eph 4:22 : 22 that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
• Eph 4:26 : 26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
• Eph 5:4 : 4 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks.
• Prov 29:22 : 22 An angry man stirreth up strife, And a wrathful man aboundeth in transgression.
• Eph 4:31-32 : 31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice: 32 and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.
• Col 3:9 : 9 lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings,
• 1 Pet 2:1 : 1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
• Jude 1:8 : 8 Yet in like manner these also in their dreamings defile the flesh, and set at nought dominion, and rail at dignities.
• Jas 3:14-16 : 14 But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom is not [a wisdom] that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed.
• Heb 12:1 : 1 Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, 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,
• Jas 1:20-21 : 20 for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. 21 Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
• Col 3:5 : 5 Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
• Ps 37:8 : 8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: Fret not thyself, [it tendeth] only to evil-doing.
• 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men?
• 2 Cor 12:20 : 20 For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not; lest by any means [there should be] strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;
• Gal 5:15 : 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
• Gal 5:20 : 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties,
• Gal 5:26 : 26 Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.
• Matt 5:22 : 22 but I say unto you, that every one who is angry with his brother shall be in danger of the judgment; and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council; and whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of the hell of fire.
• Mark 7:22 : 22 covetings, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness:
• Rom 13:13 : 13 Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.
• Prov 17:14 : 14 The beginning of strife is [as] when one letteth out water: Therefore leave off contention, before there is quarrelling.
• Prov 19:19 : 19 A man of great wrath shall bear the penalty; For if thou deliver [him], thou must do it yet again.
• Jas 2:7 : 7 Do not they blaspheme the honorable name by which ye are called?
• Jas 3:4-6 : 4 Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, whither {G302} the impulse of the steersman None willeth. 5 None So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members {G3779} is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.
• 1 Tim 1:13 : 13 though I was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief;
• 1 Tim 1:20 : 20 of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered unto Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.
• 2 Tim 2:23-24 : 23 But foolish and ignorant questionings refuse, knowing that they gender strifes. 24 And the Lord's servant must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing,
• Lev 24:11-16 : 11 and the son of the Israelitish woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him unto Moses. And his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. 12 And they put him in ward, that it might be declared unto them at the mouth of Jehovah. 13 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 14 Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him. 15 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin. 16 And he that blasphemeth the name of Jehovah, he shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the sojourner, as the home-born, when he blasphemeth the name [of Jehovah], shall be put to death.
• 2 Pet 2:7 : 7 and delivered righteous Lot, sore distressed by the lascivious life of the wicked
• 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For, uttering great swelling [words] of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;
• Jude 1:13 : 13 Wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved for ever.
• Rev 16:9 : 9 And men were scorched with great heat: and they blasphemed the name of God who hath the power over these plagues; and they repented not to give him glory.