Parallel Verses
Sawyer New Testament
Put to death, therefore, your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness 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:
Lexham Expanded Bible
Therefore put to death {what is earthly in you}: sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustful passion, evil desire, and greediness, 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;
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
Images Colossians 3:5
Prayers for Colossians 3:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Put Off The Old Behavior
4 when Christ your life shall be made manifest, then shall you also be made manifest in glory. 5 Put to death, therefore, your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness which is idolatry, 6 for which comes the wrath of God.
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Cross References
Romans 8:13
For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die; but if by the spirit you kill the deeds of the body, you shall live.
Romans 6:13
neither present your members as instruments of wickedness to sin, but present yourselves to God as living from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
1 Corinthians 6:18
Avoid fornication. Every crime that a man commits is out of his body; but he that commits fornication sins in his body.
Galatians 5:19-21
For the works of the flesh are manifest, which are, fornication, impurity, lewdness,
Romans 1:26
Therefore God gave them up to infamous affections; for their females changed a natural enjoyment for that which is against nature,
1 Corinthians 6:13
Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God will destroy both it and them. And the body is not for fornication but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body;
2 Corinthians 12:21
lest when I come again my God shall humble me before you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned, and not changed their minds, in respect to impurity and fornication and lewdness which they have committed.
Galatians 5:24
And the [subjects] of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its affections and desires.
Ephesians 4:19
who being without feeling have given themselves up to lewdness, to commit every impurity with greediness.
Matthew 15:19
For from the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies:
Mark 7:21-22
for from within, from the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, fornications,
Romans 1:29
being filled with all wickedness, malice, covetousness, vice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions, whisperers,
Romans 6:6
knowing this that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer serve sin;
Romans 7:5
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful affections operated through the law in our members to bear fruit to death;
Romans 7:7-8
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? By no means. On the contrary I knew not sin except through the law; for I had not known inordinate desire, unless the law had said, You shall not desire inordinately.
Romans 7:23
but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin which is in my members.
1 Corinthians 5:1
IT is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not among the gentiles, that a man should have his father's wife.
1 Corinthians 5:10-11
not altogether the fornicators of this world, or the covetous and rapacious, or idolaters, since then you would have to go out of the world.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites,
1 Corinthians 10:6-8
But these things are examples for us, that we should not desire evil things, as they did.
Ephesians 5:3-6
Let not fornication and any impurity or covetousness be named among you, as becomes saints,
1 Thessalonians 4:3
For this is the will of God, your purity, that you should abstain from fornication,
1 Thessalonians 4:5
not with inordinate desires like the gentiles who know not God,
Hebrews 12:16
that no one may be a fornicator or unholy person like Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright.
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is honorable in all, and married life without blame; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
James 4:1
Whence come wars and contentions among you? Come they not thence, from your pleasures that war in your members?
1 Peter 2:11
BELOVED, I exhort you as strangers and foreigners, abstain from carnal desires, which war against the soul,
Revelation 21:8
But the fearful and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.
Revelation 22:15
Without are dogs and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers and idolaters and whoever loves and practises falsehood.