Colossians 3:9
Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old man with its practices,
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Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
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Isaiah 63:8For he said, “For certain they are my people, children who are not disloyal.” 1 He became their Savior. 1
Zephaniah 3:13The remnant of Israel will no longer commit injustice or speak lies, 1 and no deceitful tongue will be found in their mouth; 1 so they will graze and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.” 1
John 8:44You are of your father, the devil, and you wish to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature because he is a liar and the father of lies.
Ephesians 4:22You were taught to put off what belongs to your former manner of life, to put off the old man. It is the old man that is corrupt because of its deceitful desires.
Colossians 3:8But now you must get rid of all these things—wrath, anger, evil intentions, insults, and obscene speech from your mouth.
Titus 1:12One of their own prophets has 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 →