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but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
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Shedding Sinful Habits
Commentators emphasize Paul's metaphor of 'putting off' sins like old, filthy clothes. Scholars like A.T. Robertson and Charles Spurgeon explain that just as you would discard a dirty garment, Christians are commanded to decisively remove habits like anger, malice, and corrupt speech. These 'filthy rags' from a former life have no place in the wardrobe of someone made new in Christ.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
But now you also put off all these. All these that follow, as they are also inconsistent with the Christian calling.
Anger, wra…
But now (νυν δε). Emphatic form of νυν in decided contrast (to ποτε in verse 7) in the resurrection life of 2:12; 3:1.
19th Century
Anglican
Anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy (slander—see Ephesians 4:31 and Notes there), filthy communication.—The…
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Baptist
But now you also put off all these; –
Put them all off, like old clothes that are never to be worn again: Put off all these;
Whereas the sins of v.5 had to do with impurity and covetousness, the catalog of v.8 concerns sins of attitude and speech. “But now” marks an empha…
16th Century
Protestant
But now—that is, after having ceased to live in the flesh. For the power and nature of mortification are such, that all …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But now you also put off all these Intimating, that now since they were converted and delivered out of the former st…
It is our duty to mortify our members that incline to the things of the world. Mortify them, kill them, suppress them, as weeds or vermin that spre…
13th Century
Catholic
Above, the Apostle warned the faithful about sins of the flesh; here he warns them about spiritual sins. First, he lays down a general admonition, …
