²⁰ Brothers and sisters, stop thinking like children.^(A) In regard to evil be infants,^(B) but in your thinking be adults.

⁸ But now you must also rid yourselves^(A) of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander,^(B) and filthy language from your lips.^(C)

²⁶ “In your anger do not sin”^[a]:^(A) Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry,

²⁷ and do not give the devil a foothold.^(A)