Colossians 3:7
In these also you walked aforetime, when you were conversant in them.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
In Context
6For on account of these cometh the anger of Aloha upon the sons of disobedience.
8But now cease you from all these; anger, wrath, malice, reviling, impure speech:
Cross References
Romans 6:19As among men I speak, because of the infirmity of your flesh, that as you have prepared your members for the service of uncleanness and of iniquity, so also now prepare ye your members for the service of righteousness and of holiness.
1 Corinthians 6:11And these were some of you but you are washed, and sanctified, and justified in the name of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, and by the Spirit of our God.
Colossians 2:13And you who were dead in your sins, and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he hath made alive with him, and forgiven us all our sins;
1 Peter 4:3For the time which hath passed sufficeth to have served the will of the Gentiles in indulgence, in drunkenness, in vileness, in revellings, and in the service of demons.
Matthew Henry on Colossians 3:6-8
Necessity of Mortifying Sin. ( a. d. 62.) 5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: 7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. The apostle exhorts the Colossians to the mortification of sin, the great hindrance to seeking the things which are above. Since it is our duty to set our affections… Read the whole commentary →