Colossians 3:7
5 Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
6 Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
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.
9 Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices,
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- When you lived among them, you also used to walk in these ways.
- KJV
- In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
- WEB
- You also once walked in those, when you lived in them,
- ASV
- wherein ye also once walked, when ye lived in these things;
- DARBY
- In which *ye* also once walked when ye lived in these things.
- BLB
- in which you⁺ also walked once when you⁺ were living in them.
- ÅB
- iblant dem vandret også dere før i tiden, da dere levde i disse ting;
- OTB
- Dere vandret en gang i disse veiene, i det livet dere levde før.
- B1930
- iblandt dem vandret også I fordum, da I levde i disse ting;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ephesians 2:2
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.
Read in context1 Peter 4:3–4
For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
Read in contextRomans 6:19–20
I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.
Read in contextTitus 3:3
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
Read in context1 Corinthians 6:11
And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Read in contextColossians 2:13
When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,
Read in contextRomans 7:5
For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
Read in context