New American Standard Bible 2020

Colossians 3:4-9

4When Christ, 1who is our life, is revealed, 2then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.

5 3Therefore, 4treat 5the parts of your earthly body as dead to 6sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which 7amounts to idolatry. 6For it is because of these things that 8the wrath of God is coming 9upon the 10sons of disobedience, 7and 11in them you also once walked, when you were living 12in them. 8But now you also, 13rid yourselves of all of them: 14anger, wrath, malice, slander, and 15obscene speech from your mouth. 9 16 17Do not lie to one another, since you 18stripped off the old 19self with its evil practices,

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Notes

1. Colossians 3:4 John 11:25; Gal 2:20 ↩
2. Colossians 3:4 1 Cor 1:7; Phil 3:21; 1 Pet 1:13; 1 John 2:28; 3:2 ↩
3. Colossians 3:5 Rom 8:13 ↩
4. Colossians 3:5 Lit put to death the parts of your body which are upon the earth ↩
5. Colossians 3:5 Col 2:11 ↩
6. Colossians 3:5 Mark 7:21f; 1 Cor 6:9f, 18; 2 Cor 12:21; Gal 5:19f; Eph 4:19; 5:3, 5 ↩
7. Colossians 3:5 Lit is ↩
8. Colossians 3:6 Rom 1:18; Eph 5:6 ↩
9. Colossians 3:6 Two early mss do not contain upon the sons of disobedience ↩
10. Colossians 3:6 I.e., people opposed to God ↩
11. Colossians 3:7 Eph 2:2 ↩
12. Colossians 3:7 Or among these ↩
13. Colossians 3:8 Eph 4:22 ↩
14. Colossians 3:8 Eph 4:31 ↩
15. Colossians 3:8 Eph 4:29 ↩
16. Colossians 3:9 Or Stop lying ↩
17. Colossians 3:9 Eph 4:25 ↩
18. Colossians 3:9 Eph 4:22 ↩
19. Colossians 3:9 Lit person ↩

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