11 translations · Greek
Colossians 3:5
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
Colossians 3:5 in 11 translations
- WEB 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;
- KJV King James Version
- Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- Put to death, then, your members that [are] on the earth—whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry—
- FBV Free Bible Version
- So kill your worldly nature—sexual sin, immorality, lust, evil desires, greedily wanting to have more—this is the worship of idols.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- Put to death, then, your members that [are] upon the earth — whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry —
- DBY 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.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; lewdness, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is the service of idols.
The Greek words
Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Νεκρώσατε | Nekrōsate | Put to death | G3499 νεκρόω to put to death |
| οὖν | oun | therefore | G3767 οὖν therefore/then |
| τὰ | ta | the | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| μέλη | melē | components | G3196 μέλος member |
| τὰ | ta | of your | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ἐπὶ | epi | — | G1909 ἐπί upon/to/against |
| τῆς | tēs | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| γῆς | gēs | earthly nature | G1093 γῆ earth: planet |
| πορνείαν | porneian | sexual immorality | G4202 πορνεία sexual sin |
| ἀκαθαρσίαν | akatharsian | impurity | G167 ἀκαθαρσία impurity |
| πάθος | pathos | lust | G3806 πάθος passion |
| ἐπιθυμίαν | epithymian | desires | G1939 ἐπιθυμία desire |
| κακήν | kakēn | evil | G2556 κακός evil/harm: evil |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 καί and |
| τὴν | tēn | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| πλεονεξίαν | pleonexian | greed | G4124 πλεονεξία greediness |
| ἥτις | hētis | which | G3748 ὅστις who/which |
| ἐστὶν | estin | is | G1510 εἰμί to be |
| εἰδωλολατρία | eidōlolatria | idolatry | G1495 εἰδωλολατρεία idolatry |
Related verses
- Romans 8:13
For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
- Galatians 5:19–21
Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
- Galatians 5:24
Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
- 1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
- Romans 6:13
Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
- 1 Corinthians 6:9–10
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.
- Ephesians 5:3–6
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints; nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks. Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God. …
- 1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
- Ephesians 4:19
who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
- Mark 7:21–22
For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
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In context
3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
4 When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
5 Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
6 for which things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
7 You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;
Read all of Colossians 3 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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