KJV King James Version
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
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Colossians 3:5
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
WEB World English Bible
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
ASV American Standard Version
Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Put to death, then, your members that are upon the earth—whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry—
Surrounding context — Colossians 3
2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
4 When Christ, [who is] our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
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:
7 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.
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ΝεκρώσατεG3499 · nekroōto put to deathοὖνG3767 · ountherefore/thenτὰG3588 · hothe/this/whoμέληG3196 · melosmemberτὰG3588 · hothe/this/whoἐπὶG1909 · epiupon/to/againstτῆςG3588 · hothe/this/whoγῆς,G1093 · gēearth: planetπορνείαν,G4202 · porneiasexual sinἀκαθαρσίαν,G167 · akatharsiaimpurityπάθος,G3806 · pathospassionἐπιθυμίανG1939 · epithumiadesireκακὴνG2556 · kakosevil/harm: evilκαὶG2532 · kaiandτὴνG3588 · hothe/this/whoπλεονεξίανG4124 · pleonexiagreedinessἥτιςG3748 · hostis, hētiswho/whichἐστὶνG1510 · eimito beεἰδωλολατρία,G1495 · eidōlolatreiaidolatry
Cross-references
Romans 8:13For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.Galatians 5:19-21Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,Galatians 5:24And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.1 Peter 2:11Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;Romans 6:13Neither yield ye your members [as] instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God.1 Corinthians 6:9-10Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,Ephesians 5:3-6But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;1 Corinthians 6:18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.Ephesians 4:19Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.Mark 7:21-22For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,Matthew 15:19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:2 Corinthians 12:21[And] lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and [that] I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.Romans 7:23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.James 4:1From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?Revelation 21:8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.Romans 7:7-8What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.1 Corinthians 6:13Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body [is] not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.Revelation 22:15For without [are] dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
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