Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Therefore put to death {what is earthly in you}: sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustful passion, evil desire, and greediness, which is idolatry,
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Holman Bible
Therefore, put to death what belongs to your worldly nature:
International Standard Version
So put to death your worldly impulses: sexual sin, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).
A Conservative Version
Put to death therefore your body-parts on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.
American Standard Version
Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
Amplified
So put to death and deprive of power the evil longings of your earthly body [with its sensual, self-centered instincts] immorality, impurity, sinful passion, evil desire, and greed, which is [a kind of] idolatry [because it replaces your devotion to God].
An Understandable Version
So, put to death [i.e., stop practicing the desires of] your physical bodies [such as] sexual immorality, [moral] impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is [in reality] idolatry.
Anderson New Testament
Put to death, therefore, your members that are on the earth, lewdness, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
Bible in Basic English
Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;
Common New Testament
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire and greed, which is idolatry.
Daniel Mace New Testament
Mortify therefore your sensual appetites, fornication, impurity, irregular passions, wicked desires, and that licentiousness practised by idolaters.
Darby Translation
Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry.
Godbey New Testament
Therefore kill your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
Goodspeed New Testament
So treat as dead your physical nature, as far as immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed are concerned; for it is really idolatry.
John Wesley New Testament
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Julia Smith Translation
Therefore kill your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
King James 2000
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Modern King James verseion
Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (which is idolatry),
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth; fornication, uncleanness, unnatural lust, evil concupiscence, and covetousness which is worshipping of idols:
Moffatt New Testament
So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),
Montgomery New Testament
So slay your baser inclinations. fornication, impurity, appetite, unnatural desires, and the greed which is idolatry.
NET Bible
So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.
New Heart English Bible
Put to death, therefore, whatever is worldly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
Noyes New Testament
Make dead therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
Sawyer New Testament
Put to death, therefore, your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness which is idolatry,
The Emphasized Bible
Make dead, therefore, your members that are on the earth - as regardeth fornication, impurity, passion, base coveting, and greed, the which, is idolatry, -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, the vile passion, evil concupiscence, and insatiable desire, which is idolatry:
Twentieth Century New Testament
Therefore destroy all that is earthly in you--immorality, uncleanness, passions, evil desires, and that greed which is idolatry.
Webster
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; lewdness, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Weymouth New Testament
Therefore put to death your earthward inclinations--fornication, impurity, sensual passion, unholy desire, and all greed, for that is a form of idolatry.
Williams New Testament
So once for all put to death your lower, earthly nature with respect to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is real idolatry.
World English Bible
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
Worrell New Testament
Make dead, therefore, your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which, indeed, is idolatry;
Worsley New Testament
Mortify therefore your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, disorderly passion, evil concupiscence, and insatiable desire, which is indeed idolatry:
Youngs Literal Translation
Put to death, then, your members that are upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --
Themes
Affections » Carnal, should be mortified
Affections » Carnal affections should be mortified
Body » Resurrection of » Subjugation of
Christian conduct » Controlling the body
Covetousness » The reward for covetousness
Covetousness » What covetousness is
Covetousness » To be mortified by saints
Idolatry » Consists in » Covetousness
Impurity » General references to
Repression of evil » Seven evils to be repressed » Evil desires and passions
Self-denial » Should be exercised in » Mortifying sinful lusts
Seven » Evils to be repressed » Evil desires and passions
Topics
Interlinear
ὅστις ἥτις ὅ6τι
hostis
which, who, whosoever, that, whatsoever , whosoever , whatsoever 9 ,
Usage: 112
Kakos
References
American
Easton
Fausets
Word Count of 37 Translations in Colossians 3:5
Prayers for Colossians 3:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Put Off The Old Behavior
4 When Christ, [who is] your life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory. 5 Therefore put to death {what is earthly in you}: sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustful passion, evil desire, and greediness, which is idolatry, 6 because of which the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience,
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Cross References
Romans 8:13
For if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Romans 6:13
and do not present your members to sin [as] instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your members to God [as] instruments of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a person commits is outside his body, but the one who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
Galatians 5:19-21
Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are sexual immorality, impurity, licentiousness,
Romans 1:26
Because of this, God gave them over to degrading passions, for their females exchanged the natural relations for those contrary to nature,
1 Corinthians 6:13
Food [is] for the stomach, and the stomach for food, but God will abolish {both of them}. Now the body [is] not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
2 Corinthians 12:21
[I am afraid] lest [when I] come again my God will humiliate me {in your presence}, and I will grieve over many of those who sinned previously and have not repented because of their impurity and sexual immorality and licentiousness that they have practiced.
Galatians 5:24
Now those {who belong to Christ} have crucified the flesh together with its feelings and its desires.
Ephesians 4:19
who, becoming callous, gave themselves over to licentiousness, for the pursuit of all uncleanness in greediness.
Matthew 15:19
For from the heart come evil plans, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, abusive speech.
Mark 7:21-22
For from within, from the heart of people, come evil plans, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,
Romans 1:29
being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greediness, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malevolence. [They are] gossipers,
Romans 6:6
knowing this, that our old man was crucified together with [him], in order that the body of sin may be done away with, [that] we may no longer be enslaved to sin.
Romans 7:5
For when we were in the flesh, sinful desires were working through the law in our members, to bear fruit for death.
Romans 7:7-8
What then shall we say? [Is] the law sin? May it never be! But I would not have known sin except through the law, for I would not have known covetousness if the law had not said, "Do not covet."
Romans 7:23
but I observe another law in my members, at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that exists in my members.
1 Corinthians 5:1
It is reported everywhere [that there] is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind which [does] not [even exist] among the Gentiles, so that someone has the wife of [his] father.
1 Corinthians 5:10-11
By no means [did I mean] the sexually immoral people of this world or the greedy people and swindlers or idolaters, since then you would have to depart out of the world.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Neither sexually immoral people, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor passive homosexual partners, nor dominant homosexual partners,
1 Corinthians 10:6-8
Now these [things] happened [as] examples for us, so that we should not be desirers of evil [things], just as those also desired [them],
Ephesians 5:3-6
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or greediness, must not even be named among you (as is fitting for saints),
1 Thessalonians 4:3
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: [that] you abstain from sexual immorality;
1 Thessalonians 4:5
not in lustful passion, just as also the Gentiles who do not know God;
Hebrews 12:16
[that] no one [be] a sexually immoral or totally worldly [person] like Esau, who for one meal traded his own birthright.
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage [must be] held in honor by all, and the marriage bed [be] undefiled, because God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.
James 4:1
From where [are] conflicts and from where [are] quarrels among you? [Is it] not from this, from your pleasures that wage war among your members?
1 Peter 2:11
Dear friends, I urge [you] as foreigners and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires which wage war against your soul,
Revelation 21:8
But [as] for the cowards and unbelievers and detestable persons and murderers and sexually immoral people and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their share [is] in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.
Revelation 22:15
Outside [are] the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral people and the murderers and the idolaters and everyone who loves and who practices falsehood.