5Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. 6For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience, 7and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them. 8But now you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth. 9Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices, 10and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him— 11a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all.
Interesting Words
raise up with
(συνεγείρω – Greek) – sunegeiró ► verb: from with (sun) and waken (egeiró), to rouse in company with (figuratively) to revivify (spirtually) in resemblance to, rise with – Eph 2:6; Col 2:12;
keep seeking
(ζητέω – Greek) – zéteó ► verb: to seek,
(specially, by Hebraism) to worship (God), desire, endeavour, present tense, continuous imparative – Matt 6:33; Luke 11:9-10; John 4:23; Phil 2:20-21;
set your mind
(φρονέω – Greek) – phroneó ► verb: to think, exercise the mind, have an opinion, interest oneself in – Mark 8:33; Rom 8:5, 12:3; Phil 2:2, 5-6;
hidden
(κρύπτω – Greek) – kruptó ► verb: (Perfect Indicative Middle or Passive, completed action with lasting results) to hide, conceal (properly, by covering), keep secret – Matt 5:14, 11:25, 13:44;
consider as dead
laid aside
(ἀπεκδύομαι – Greek) – apekduomai ► verb – aorist particple middle (point in time), to disarm, despoil, put off, spoil, divest oneself completely – Col 2:15; used only twice in NT, here in Colossians.
put on
(ἐνδύω – Greek) – enduo ► verb: aorist particple middle (point in time), to put on, clothe, endue, array – Matt 6:25; Mark 1:6; Luke 12:22-23, 24:49;
renewed
(ἀνακαινόω – Greek) – anakainoó ► verb: to renovate, renew [from (ἀνά – each) and a derivative of (καινός – new)], present participle middle or passive – 2Cor 4:16; used only twice in NT, here and in Colossians.
Cross References
▪︎ Remember where you came from – Eph 2:12;
▪︎ Put on the armor of light – Rom 13:12-13;
▪︎ Put on the Lord Jesus Christ – Rom 13:14;
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