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Colossians 3:7

Sin

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

6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.

8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

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

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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;

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Cross references

  • Ephesians 2:2

    Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

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  • 1 Peter 4:3–4

    For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

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  • Romans 6:19–20

    I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

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  • Titus 3:3

    For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

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  • 1 Corinthians 6:11

    And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

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  • Colossians 2:13

    And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

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  • Romans 7:5

    For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

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