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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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Colossians
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Albert Barnes
On Colossians 3:8
18th Century
Theologian
But now you also put off all these. All these that follow, as they are also inconsistent with the Christian calling.
Anger, wra…
AT Robertson
On Colossians 3:8
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.
Charles Ellicott
On Colossians 3:8
19th Century
Bishop
Anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy (slander—see Ephesians 4:31 and Notes there), filthy communication.—The…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Colossians 3:8
19th Century
Preacher
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;
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Colossians 3:8
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…
John Calvin
On Colossians 3:8
16th Century
Theologian
But now—that is, after having ceased to live in the flesh. For the power and nature of mortification are such, that all …
John Gill
On Colossians 3:8
17th Century
Pastor
But now you also put off all these
Intimating, that now since they were converted and delivered out of the former st…
Matthew Henry
On Colossians 3:5–11
17th Century
Minister
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…