Colossians 3:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But now it is right for you to put away all these things; wrath, passion, bad feeling, curses, unclean talk;

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  • Eph 4:29 : 29 Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.
  • Eph 4:22 : 22 That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;
  • Eph 4:26 : 26 Be angry without doing wrong; let not the sun go down on your wrath;
  • Eph 5:4 : 4 And let there be no low behaviour, or foolish talk, or words said in sport, which are not right, but in place of them the giving of praise.
  • Prov 29:22 : 22 An angry man is the cause of fighting, and a man given to wrath does much wrong.
  • Eph 4:31-32 : 31 Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts; 32 And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.
  • Col 3:9 : 9 Do not make false statements to one another; because you have put away the old man with all his doings,
  • 1 Pet 2:1 : 1 So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,
  • Jude 1:8 : 8 In the same way these dreamers make the flesh unclean, having no respect for authorities, and say evil of rulers.
  • Jas 3:14-16 : 14 But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true. 15 This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One. 16 For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.
  • Heb 12:1 : 1 For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,
  • Jas 1:20-21 : 20 For the righteousness of God does not come about by the wrath of man. 21 For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.
  • Col 3:5 : 5 Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;
  • Ps 37:8 : 8 Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin.
  • 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 Because you are still in the flesh: for when there is envy and division among you, are you not still walking after the way of the flesh, even as natural men?
  • 2 Cor 12:20 : 20 For I have a fear that, when I come, you may not be answering to my desire, and that I may not be answering to yours; that there may be fighting, hate, angry feeling, divisions, evil talk about others, secrets, thoughts of pride, outbursts against authority;
  • Gal 5:15 : 15 But if you are given to fighting with one another, take care that you are not the cause of destruction one to another.
  • Gal 5:20 : 20 Worship of images, use of strange powers, hates, fighting, desire for what another has, angry feelings, attempts to get the better of others, divisions, false teachings,
  • Gal 5:26 : 26 Let us not be full of self-glory, making one another angry, having envy of one another.
  • Matt 5:22 : 22 But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be in danger of being judged; and he who says to his brother, Raca, will be in danger from the Sanhedrin; and whoever says, You foolish one, will be in danger of the hell of fire.
  • Mark 7:22 : 22 The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts:
  • Rom 13:13 : 13 With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy.
  • Prov 17:14 : 14 The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows.
  • Prov 19:19 : 19 A man of great wrath will have to take his punishment: for if you get him out of trouble you will have to do it again.
  • Jas 2:7 : 7 Do they not say evil of the holy name which was given to you?
  • Jas 3:4-6 : 4 And again ships, though they are so great and are moved by violent winds, are turned by a very small guiding-blade, at the impulse of the man who is using it. 5 Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.
  • 1 Tim 1:13 : 13 Though I had said violent words against God, and done cruel acts, causing great trouble: but I was given mercy, because I did it without knowledge, not having faith;
  • 1 Tim 1:20 : 20 Such are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have given up to Satan, so that they may say no more evil words against God.
  • 2 Tim 2:23-24 : 23 And put away foolish and uncontrolled questionings, seeing that they are a cause of trouble. 24 For it is not right for the Lord's servant to make trouble, but he is to be gentle to all, ready in teaching, putting up with wrong,
  • Lev 24:11-16 : 11 And the son of the Israelite woman said evil against the holy Name, with curses; and they took him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. 12 And they kept him shut up, till a decision might be given by the mouth of the Lord. 13 And the Lord said to Moses, 14 Take the curser outside the tent-circle; and let all in whose hearing the words were said put their hands on his head, and let him be stoned by all the people. 15 And say to the children of Israel, As for any man cursing God, his sin will be on his head. 16 And he who says evil against the name of the Lord will certainly be put to death; he will be stoned by all the people; the man who is not of your nation and one who is an Israelite by birth, whoever says evil against the holy Name is to be put to death.
  • 2 Pet 2:7 : 7 And kept safe Lot, the upright man, who was deeply troubled by the unclean life of the evil-doers
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;
  • Jude 1:13 : 13 Violent waves of the sea, streaming with their shame, wandering stars for whom the darkest night is kept in store for ever.
  • Rev 16:9 : 9 And men were burned with great heat: and they said evil things against the name of the God who has authority over these punishments; and they were not turned from their evil ways to give him glory.

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    9Do not make false statements to one another; because you have put away the old man with all his doings,

    10And have put on the new man, which has become new in knowledge after the image of his maker;

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    5Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;

    6Because of which the wrath of God comes on those who go against his orders;

    7Among whom you were living in the past, when you did such things.

  • Eph 4:29-32
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    29Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.

    30And do not give grief to the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were marked for the day of salvation.

    31Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts;

    32And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.

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    1So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,

  • Eph 4:22-26
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    22That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

    23And be made new in the spirit of your mind,

    24And put on the new man, to which God has given life, in righteousness and a true and holy way of living.

    25And so, putting away false words, let everyone say what is true to his neighbour: for we are parts one of another.

    26Be angry without doing wrong; let not the sun go down on your wrath;

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    2To say no evil of any man, not to be fighters, to give way to others, to be gentle in behaviour to all men.

    3For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

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    12As saints of God, then, holy and dearly loved, let your behaviour be marked by pity and mercy, kind feeling, a low opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, and a power of undergoing all things;

    13Being gentle to one another and having forgiveness for one another, if anyone has done wrong to his brother, even as the Lord had forgiveness for you:

    14And more than all, have love; the only way in which you may be completely joined together.

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    29Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;

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    6Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.

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    14Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

  • Titus 2:8
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    8Saying true and right words, against which no protest may be made, so that he who is not on our side may be put to shame, unable to say any evil of us.

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    3But evil acts of the flesh and all unclean things, or desire for others' property, let it not even be named among you, as is right for saints;

    4And let there be no low behaviour, or foolish talk, or words said in sport, which are not right, but in place of them the giving of praise.

  • Jas 3:9-10
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    9With it we give praise to our Lord and Father; and with it we put a curse on men who are made in God's image.

    10Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, it is not right for these things to be so.

  • Prov 4:24
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    24Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you.

  • Rom 13:14
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    14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.

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    21For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.

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    3Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

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    19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:

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    8Last of all, see that you are all in agreement; feeling for one another, loving one another like brothers, full of pity, without pride:

    9Not giving back evil for evil, or curse for curse, but in place of cursing, blessing; because this is the purpose of God for you that you may have a heritage of blessing.

    10For it is said, Let the man who has a love of life, desiring to see good days, keep his tongue from evil and his lips from words of deceit:

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    4And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:

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    22The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts:

    23All these evil things come from inside, and make the man unclean.

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    16Being conscious that you have done no wrong; so that those who say evil things about your good way of life as Christians may be put to shame.

  • Col 1:21
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    21And you, who in the past were cut off and at war with God in your minds through evil works, he has now made one

  • Gal 5:19
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    19Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,

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    8For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light

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    14Having put an end to the handwriting of the law which was against us, taking it out of the way by nailing it to his cross;

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    17This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,

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    13Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.

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    19You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;

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    8Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin.

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    14But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.