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Colossians 3:8 (WEB)
but now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

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§1852Article 8 · SinRead at vatican.va
“I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God."” — Catechism footnote: Gal 5:19-21; CE Rom 1:28-32; 1 Cor 9-10; Eph 5:3-5; Col 3:5-8; 1 Tim 9-10; 2 Tim 2-5.

Origen, Against Celsus IV.72Book IV
“…from anger, and forsake wrath,” and which commands us by the mouth of Paul to “put off all these, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication,” would not involve God in the same passion from which it would have us to be altogether free.” — editor's note: Cf. Col. iii. 8.
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John Cassian, Conferences I–X V.11Conference V
“…which breaks out in word and deed and action, which they term ὀργή: of which the Apostle speaks, saying “But now do ye lay aside all anger and indignation;” the third, which is not like those in boiling over and being done with in an hour, but which lasts for days and long periods, which is called μῆνις.” — editor's note: Col. iii. 8.
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Ambrose of Milan, Exposition of the Christian Faith I.6Book I
“…to the tradition of men, and after the rudiments of this world, not according to Christ; for in Him dwelleth all the fulness of Godhead in bodily shape.”” — editor's note: It would, I think, be unfair to construe this passage into an absolute condemnation of all the results of human activity, arrived at without any conscious…
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Ambrose of Milan, Exposition of the Christian Faith V.15Book V
“Therefore, “laying aside all these,” that is those things which we read of: “anger, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication;” as he also says below: “Let us, having put off the old man with his deeds, put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created Him.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 8.
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Augustine of Hippo, On Continence Chapter 31
““But now do ye also,” saith he, “put down all;” and he makes mention of several more evils of that sort.” — editor's note: Col. iii. 8
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Tertullian, On Modesty Chapter 17
“He demonstrates, too, to the Colossians what “members” they are to “mortify” upon earth: “fornication, impurity, lust, evil concupiscence,” and “base talk.”” — editor's note: See Col. iii. 5, 8.
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Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.3Book VII
“For “to bring themselves into captivity,” and to slay themselves, putting to death “the old man, who is through lusts corrupt,” and raising the new man from death, “from the old conversation,” by abandoning the passions, and becoming free of sin, both the Gospel and the apostle enjoin.” — editor's note: Rom. vi. 6, 7; 2 Cor. x. 5; Eph. iv. 22–24; Col. iii. 8, 9, etc.
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