Colossians 3:9
Do not lie to one another, having put off the old man with his practices,
Literal Standard Version
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
Isaiah 63:8And He says, “Surely they [are] My people, || Sons—they do not lie,” and He is to them for a Savior.
Zephaniah 3:13The remnant of Israel does no perversity, nor speaks lies, || Nor is a deceitful tongue found in their mouth, || For they have delight, and have lain down, || And there is none troubling.”
John 8:44You are of a father—the Devil, and the desires of your father you will to do; he was a manslayer from the beginning, and he has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, he speaks of his own, because he is a liar—also his father.
Ephesians 4:22concerning the former behavior you are to put off the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,
Colossians 3:8but now put off, even you, the whole—anger, wrath, malice, slander, filthy talking—out of your mouth.
Titus 1:12A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans! Always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!”
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 →