Colossians 3:9
Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old man with his practices
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
In Context
Cross References
John 8:44You are of your father the devil, and it is the desires of your father that you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks the lie he speaks from his own things, because he is a liar and the father of lying.
Ephesians 4:22that you put away, concerning your former way of life, the old man (that keeps on being corrupted by the deceitful desires),
Colossians 3:8But now you must also rid yourselves of all these—anger, rage, malice, slander, obscene speech—out of your mouth.
Titus 1:12One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”
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 →