Colossians 3:9
Be not guilty of falsehood one to another: having stript off the old man, together with his practices,
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 63:8Therefore he said—Surely my people, they are, Sons, they will not act falsely! So he became their saviour.
Zephaniah 3:13The remnant of Israel—will not do perversity, nor speak falsehood, neither shall there be found in their mouth a tongue of deceit,—surely, they, shall feed and lie down, with none to make them afraid.
John 8:44Ye, are, of your father—the adversary, and, the covetings of your father, ye choose to be doing. He, was, a murderer, from the beginning, and, in the truth, he stood not; because truth is not in him: Whensoever he speaketh falsehood, of his own, he speaketh; because, false, he is, and, the father of it.
Ephesians 4:22That ye were to strip off—as regardeth the former behaviour—the old man, who corrupteth himself according to his deceitful covetings,
Colossians 3:8But, now, do, ye also, put them all away,—anger, wrath, baseness, defamation, shameful talk out of your mouth:
Titus 1:12Said one from among them, a prophet, of their own!—Cretans! always false, mischievous wild-beasts, idle 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 →