Wherein ye also walked once, when ye lived in them.

But now put ye away even all these things, wrath, anger, maliciousness, cursed speaking, filthy speaking, out of your mouth.

Lie not one to another: [a]seeing that ye have put off the old man with his works,

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 3:9 A definition of our new birth taken of the parts thereof, which are the putting off of the old man, that is to say, of the wickedness which is in us by nature, and the restoring, and repairing of the new man, that is to say, of pureness which is given us by grace: but both of them are but begun in us in this present life, and by certain degrees finished: the one dying in us by little and little, and the other coming to the perfection of another life, by little and little.

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

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

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

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You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.(A) But now you must also rid yourselves(B) of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander,(C) and filthy language from your lips.(D) Do not lie to each other,(E) since you have taken off your old self(F) with its practices

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