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Mortifyq therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

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Rom. 8:13• ¹³for if ye live according to flesh, ye are about to die; but if, by the Spirit, ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live: (Rom. 8:13)

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Gal. 5:24• ²⁴But they that are of the Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts. (Gal. 5:24)

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Eph. 5:3‑6• ³But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;
⁴and filthiness and foolish talking, or jesting, which are not convenient; but rather thanksgiving.
⁵For this ye are well informed of, knowing that no fornicator, or unclean person, or person of unbridled lust, who is an idolater, has inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.
⁶Let no one deceive you with vain words, for on account of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. (Eph. 5:3‑6)

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Mortify.

Rom. 6:6• ⁶knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin. (Rom. 6:6)

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Rom. 8:13• ¹³for if ye live according to flesh, ye are about to die; but if, by the Spirit, ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live: (Rom. 8:13)

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Gal. 5:24• ²⁴But they that are of the Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts. (Gal. 5:24)

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Eph. 5:3‑6• ³But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;
⁴and filthiness and foolish talking, or jesting, which are not convenient; but rather thanksgiving.
⁵For this ye are well informed of, knowing that no fornicator, or unclean person, or person of unbridled lust, who is an idolater, has inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.
⁶Let no one deceive you with vain words, for on account of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. (Eph. 5:3‑6)

members.

Rom. 6:13• ¹³Neither yield your members instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as alive from among the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God. (Rom. 6:13)

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Rom. 7:5,23• ⁵For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which were by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death;
²³but I see another law in my members, warring in opposition to the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which exists in my members. (Rom. 7:5,23)

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James 4:1• ¹Whence come wars and whence fightings among you? Is it not thence,--from your pleasures, which war in your members? (James 4:1)

fornication.

Matt. 15:19• ¹⁹For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies; (Matt. 15:19)

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Mark 7:21‑22• ²¹For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
²²thefts, covetousness, wickednesses, deceit, licentiousness, a wicked eye, injurious language, haughtiness, folly; (Mark 7:21‑22)

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Rom. 1:29• ²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers, (Rom. 1:29)

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1 Cor. 5:1,10‑11• ¹It is universally reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the nations, so that one should have his father's wife.
¹⁰not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the avaricious and rapacious, or idolaters, since then ye should go out of the world.
¹¹But now I have written to you, if any one called brother be fornicator, or avaricious, or idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to mix with him; with such a one not even to eat. (1 Cor. 5:1,10‑11)

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1 Cor. 6:9,13,18• ⁹Do ye not know that unrighteous persons shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men,
¹³Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will bring to nothing both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
¹⁸Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body. (1 Cor. 6:9,13,18)

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2 Cor. 12:21• ²¹lest my God should humble me as to you when I come again, and that I shall grieve over many of those who have sinned before, and have not repented as to the uncleanness and fornication and licentiousness which they have practised. (2 Cor. 12:21)

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Gal. 5:19‑21• ¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,
²⁰idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, disputes, schools of opinion,
²¹envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom. (Gal. 5:19‑21)

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Eph. 5:3• ³But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints; (Eph. 5:3)

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1 Thess. 4:3• ³For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication; (1 Thess. 4:3)

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Heb. 12:16• ¹⁶lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright; (Heb. 12:16)

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Heb. 13:4• ⁴Let marriage be held every way in honour, and the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge. (Heb. 13:4)

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Rev. 21:8• ⁸But to the fearful and unbelieving, and sinners, and those who make themselves abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death. (Rev. 21:8)

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Rev. 22:15• ¹⁵Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loves and makes a lie. (Rev. 22:15)

inordinate.

Rom. 1:26• ²⁶For this reason God gave them up to vile lusts; for both their females changed the natural use into that contrary to nature; (Rom. 1:26)

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1 Thess. 4:5• ⁵(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,) (1 Thess. 4:5)

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1 Thess. 4• (1 Thess. 4)

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evil.

Rom. 7:7‑8• ⁷What shall we say then? is the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust;
⁸but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin was dead. (Rom. 7:7‑8)

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1 Cor. 10:6‑8• ⁶But these things happened as types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.
⁷Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
⁸Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. (1 Cor. 10:6‑8)

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Eph. 4:19• ¹⁹who having cast off all feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greedy unsatisfied lust. (Eph. 4:19)

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1 Peter 2:11• ¹¹Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; (1 Peter 2:11)

covetousness.

1 Cor. 6:10• ¹⁰nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor abusive persons, nor the rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Cor. 6:10)

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Gal. 5:19‑21• ¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,
²⁰idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, disputes, schools of opinion,
²¹envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom. (Gal. 5:19‑21)

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Eph. 5:3,5• ³But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;
⁵For this ye are well informed of, knowing that no fornicator, or unclean person, or person of unbridled lust, who is an idolater, has inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God. (Eph. 5:3,5)

• We have members on earth—no recognized life; and we have to put to death all these members of the old man….putting to death is an act of power in that which is good—the new man. (“Colossians 3” by J.N. Darby)

• It is really what man is; and such is the nature which alone we had as children of Adam. These are alas! in the singularly energetic language of the Spirit of God here called the members of the man. (“Colossians 3” by W. Kelly)

• {vss. 5-17} what follows in this 3rd chapter is the exercise of divesting the character of the old life and putting on the character of the new, so that the divine objective of having a reproduction of Christ displayed in the saints would be achieved (chap. 1:27). (“The Believer's Identification With the Death and Resurrection of Christ: Colossians 3:1-11” by B. Anstey)

• Put to death is a strong and forcible expression. Our tendency is to parley with these things, and sometimes even play with them and make provision for them. Our safety, however, lies in action of a ruthless kind. (“The Believer's Identification With the Death and Resurrection of Christ: Colossians 3:1-11” by B. Anstey)

• “Covetousness, which is idolatry.” Covetousness is allowing the desire for something to have an undue place in our hearts that displaces God, and anything that displaces God in our affections is an idol. (“The Believer's Identification With the Death and Resurrection of Christ: Colossians 3:1-11” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Put to deatha therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desireb, which is idolatry.

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The aorist. "be in the state of having done it."

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Or "covetousness"; as Eph. 4.19 ("greedy unsatisfied lust"), and Eph. 5.5 ("unbridled lust").

W. Kelly Translation

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Put to death therefore your members that [are] on the earth, fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;