Colossians 3:5
Put to death, therefore, your members that are on the earth, lewdness, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
4When the Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory.
6on account of these things the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience,
Cross References
Mark 7:21For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the purposes which are evil: adulteries, lewd actions, murders,
Romans 1:29as they were filled with all unrighteousness, lewdness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity;
Romans 6:13and present not your members to sin, as instruments of unrighteousness: but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead; and your members to God, as instruments of righteousness.
Romans 7:7What, then, shall we say? Is the law sin? It can not be. Indeed, I had not known sin, except through law. For I had not known evil desire, unless the law had said: You shall not have any evil desire.
Romans 8:13for if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if, through the Spirit, you put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live.
Matthew Henry on Colossians 3:2-5
The Spiritual Life. ( a. d. 62.) 1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 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. The apostle, having described our privileges by Christ in the former part of the epistle, and our discharge from the yoke of the ceremonial law, comes… Read the whole commentary →