Colossians 3:9
lie not to one another, having laid aside the old man with his habits,
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
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 you wish to do the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, because there was no truth in him. When he may speak a lie, he speaks of his own: because he is a liar, and the father of the same.
Ephesians 4:22that with reference to your former life, you are to lay aside the old man, who is corrupt in the lusts of deception;
Colossians 3:8but you also lay aside all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, disgraceful talk out of your mouths:
Titus 1:12A certain one of them, their own prophet, said, The Cretans are all liars, evil beasts, slow stomachs.
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 →