Colossians 3:5-7
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
Put To Death The Practices of The Old Person And Put On The New Person
5 Therefore, put-to-death your body-part things[a] on earth— sexual-immorality, impurity, passion[b], evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry— 6 because of which things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of [c] disobedience, 7 in which[d] things you also formerly walked when you were living in these things.
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- Colossians 3:5 That is, the sins associated with your body, the sins mentioned next. Or, your body-parts, members, limbs. That is, the physical members of your body insofar as they serve as instruments of sin; or, the metaphorical members of your ‘old person’, the old desires.
- Colossians 3:5 Or, lustfulness.
- Colossians 3:6 That is, characterized by.
- Colossians 3:7 Or, among whom you.
Colossians 3:5-7
New International Version
5 Put to death,(A) therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature:(B) sexual immorality,(C) impurity, lust, evil desires and greed,(D) which is idolatry.(E) 6 Because of these, the wrath of God(F) is coming.[a] 7 You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.(G)
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- Colossians 3:6 Some early manuscripts coming on those who are disobedient
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