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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 mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. (Rom. 8:13)

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

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Eph. 5:3‑6• ³But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be even named among you, even as becometh saints;
⁴and filthiness and foolish talking or jesting, which are not becoming, but rather thanksgiving.
⁵For this ye are aware of, knowing that no fornicator nor unclean nor covetous [person], who is an idolater, hath inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.
⁶Let no one deceive you by vain words; for on account of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience. (Eph. 5:3‑6)

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Mortify.

Rom. 6:6• ⁶knowing this, that our old man was crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be disannulled, 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 mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. (Rom. 8:13)

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

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Eph. 5:3‑6• ³But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be even named among you, even as becometh saints;
⁴and filthiness and foolish talking or jesting, which are not becoming, but rather thanksgiving.
⁵For this ye are aware of, knowing that no fornicator nor unclean nor covetous [person], who is an idolater, hath inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.
⁶Let no one deceive you by vain words; for on account of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience. (Eph. 5:3‑6)

members.

Rom. 6:13• ¹³nor be yielding your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as alive out of [the] dead, and your members as 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 that [were] by the law wrought in our members bringing forth fruit to death;
²³but I see a different law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members. (Rom. 7:5,23)

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James 4:1• ¹Whence [are] wars and whence fightings among you? [Are they] not hence, from your pleasures that combat in your members? (James 4:1)

fornication.

Matt. 15:19• ¹⁹{i}For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies;{/i} (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, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: (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, ill-will; whisperers, (Rom. 1:29)

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1 Cor. 5:1,10‑11• ¹Universal report is of fornication among you, and such fornication as [is] not even among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
¹⁰not absolutely with the fornicators of this world, or the covetous and rapacious or idolatrous, since [in that case] ye must go out of the world.
¹¹But now I have written to you, if anyone called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or idolatrous, or abusive, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to mix with [him], with such an one not even to eat. (1 Cor. 5:1,10‑11)

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1 Cor. 6:9,13,18• ⁹What! know ye not that unjust [men] shall not inherit God's kingdom? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers of themselves as women, nor abusers of themselves with men,
¹³Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats, but God will bring to nought 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 whatsoever that a man may Practice is outside the body, but the fornicator sinneth against his own body. (1 Cor. 6:9,13,18)

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2 Cor. 12:21• ²¹lest on my coming again my God humble me among you, and, bewail many of those that have sinned heretofore and not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and indecency which they committed. (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, hatreds, strifes, jealousies, bursts of passion, contentions, divisions, parties,
²¹envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these, as to which I forewarn you, even as also I forewarned, 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 covetousness, let it not be even named among you, even as becometh saints; (Eph. 5:3)

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

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

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Heb. 13:4• ⁴[Be] marriage in all [things] held in honour, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. (Heb. 13:4)

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Rev. 21:8• ⁸But for the cowardly and faithless and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part {i}shall be{/i} in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. (Rev. 21:8)

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Rev. 22:15• ¹⁵Without {i}are{/i} the dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and every one that loveth and practiceth a lie. (Rev. 22:15)

inordinate.

Rom. 1:26• ²⁶On this account God gave them up to vile passions; for both their females exchanged the natural use into the unnatural, (Rom. 1:26)

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1 Thess. 4:5• ⁵not in passion of lust, even as also the Gentiles that 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 then shall we say? [Is] the law sin? Let it not be. Nay, I had not known sin unless by law; for lust also I had not been conscious of, unless the law had said, “Thou shalt not lust.”
⁸But sin having taken occasion by the commandment wrought in me every lust; for apart from law sin is 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, even as they also lusted.
⁷Neither be ye idolaters, even as some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
⁸Neither let us commit fornication, even as some of them committed, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand. (1 Cor. 10:6‑8)

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Eph. 4:19• ¹⁹who, as being past remorse, have given themselves up to lasciviousness unto [the] working of every uncleanness with greediness. (Eph. 4:19)

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

covetousness.

1 Cor. 6:10• ¹⁰nor rapacious, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit God's kingdom. (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, hatreds, strifes, jealousies, bursts of passion, contentions, divisions, parties,
²¹envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these, as to which I forewarn you, even as also I forewarned, 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 covetousness, let it not be even named among you, even as becometh saints;
⁵For this ye are aware of, knowing that no fornicator nor unclean nor covetous [person], who is an idolater, hath 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;