Colossians 3:9
Do not make false statements to one another; because you have put away the old man with all his doings,
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
In Context
10And have put on the new man, which has become new in knowledge after the image of his maker;
Cross References
Isaiah 63:8For he said, Truly they are my people, children who will not be false: so he was their saviour out of all their trouble.
Zephaniah 3:13The rest of Israel will do no evil and say no false words; the tongue of deceit will not be seen in their mouth: for they will take their food and their rest, and no one will be a cause of fear to them.
John 8:44You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.
Ephesians 4:22That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;
Colossians 3:8But now it is right for you to put away all these things; wrath, passion, bad feeling, curses, unclean talk;
Titus 1:12One of their prophets has said, The men of Crete are ever false, evil beasts, lovers of food, hating work.
Matthew Henry on Colossians 3:9-12
Necessity of Mortifying Sin. ( a. d. 62.) 8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. 9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; 10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: 11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. As we are to mortify inordinate… Read the whole commentary →