COLOSSIANS 3:9

KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)

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“Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;”

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Colossians 3:9 Translation & Meaning

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Lie ψεύδεσθε To utter an untruth or attempt to deceive by falsehood Lie
not μὴ (adverb) not, (conjunction) lest; also (as an interrogative implying a negative answer (whereas G3756 expects an affirmative one)) whether not
one ἀλλήλους One another one
to εἰς To or into (indicating the point reached or entered), of place, time, or (figuratively) purpose (result, etc.); also in adverbial phrases to
another, ἀλλήλους One another another
seeing that ye have put off ἀπεκδυσάμενοι To divest wholly oneself, or (for oneself) despoil seeing put off
the τὸν The (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom) the
old παλαιὸν Antique, i.e., not recent, worn out old
man ἄνθρωπον Man-faced, i.e., a human being man
with σὺν With or together (but much closer than G3326 or G3844), i.e., by association, companionship, process, resemblance, possession, instrumentality, addition, etc with
his αὐτοῦ The reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative G1438) of the third person, and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons his
deeds; πράξεσιν Practice, i.e., (concretely) an act; by extension, a function deeds

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  • 7  In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.

  • 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.




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