Colossians 3:6
4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
5 Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
7 When you lived among them, you also used to walk in these ways.
8 But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
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Compare
- BSB
- Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
- KJV
- For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
- WEB
- For these things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
- ASV
- for which things` sake cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience:
- DARBY
- On account of which things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
- BLB
- because of which things the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience,
- ÅB
- for disse ting kommer Guds vrede over vantroens barn;
- OTB
- På grunn av disse kommer Guds vrede over de ulydige.
- B1930
- for disse ting kommer Guds vrede over vantroens barn;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ephesians 5:6
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
Read in contextRomans 1:18
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness.
Read in context1 Peter 1:14
As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
Read in contextEzekiel 16:45–46
You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
Read in contextRevelation 22:15
But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
Read in contextIsaiah 57:4
Whom are you mocking? At whom do you snarl and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of deceit,
Read in context2 Peter 2:14
Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.
Read in contextEphesians 2:2–3
in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
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