Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. {to...: or, to edify profitably}

That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us 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,

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

For ye are yet carnal: for whereas {there is} among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? {divisions: or, factions} {as men: Gr. according to man?}

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and {that} I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest {there be} debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. {Raca: that is, Vain fellow}

Behold also the ships, which though {they be} so great, and {are} driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. {honestly: or, decently}

The beginning of strife {is as} when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called? {blaspheme: or, revile, or, slander}

All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did {it} ignorantly in unbelief.

Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

Likewise also these {filthy} dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.

For when they speak great swelling {words} of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, {through much} wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. {clean: or, for a little, or, a while, as some read}

Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver {him}, yet thou must do it again. {do: Heb. add}

And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory. {scorched: or, burned}

And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name {of the LORD}, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name {was} Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)

Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. {to...: or, to edify profitably}

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

{Let} nothing {be done} through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.

And the tongue {is} a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. {course: Gr. wheel}

In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. {a froward...: Heb. frowardness of mouth and perverseness of lips}

Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I {am} the LORD.

Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. {into his bowels: Heb. within him}