{"id":2089,"date":"2012-12-14T05:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2089"},"modified":"2023-02-15T07:13:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T13:13:57","slug":"colossians-35-8-%e2%80%94-therefore-put-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2089","title":{"rendered":"Colossians 3:5-8 \u2014 Therefore, put to death"},"content":{"rendered":"

5\u00a0<\/sup>Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

6\u00a0<\/sup>Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience,<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

7\u00a0<\/sup>in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

8\u00a0<\/sup>But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

therefore (v.5) \u2014 because your life is hidden in Christ and you will appear with Him in glory (vs. 3-4<\/span><\/a>)<\/h3>\n

put to death (v.5) \u2014 tense indicates an act with a definite result \u2014 put to death with a decisive act<\/h3>\n

members (v.5) = limbs \u2014 used here in the sense of instruments by which we sin<\/h3>\n

fornication (v.5) = illicit sexual intercourse \u2014 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body (1 Corinthians 6:18<\/span><\/a>).<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

uncleanness (v.5) = impurity, in thought, word, and act<\/h3>\n

passion (v.5) \u2014 ungovernable desire<\/h3>\n

covetousness (v.5)\u00a0= a desire to have more, in a bad sense \u2014 here probably used of sexual coveting<\/h3>\n

The Colossians had been saved out of paganism which indulged in sexual immorality, as did some branches of the Gnostics.<\/h3>\n

sons of disobedience (v.6) \u2014 not in the best texts, but found in Ephesians 5:6<\/span><\/a>.<\/h3>\n

disobedience (v.6) = obstinacy, being unpersuadable<\/h3>\n

you (v.7) \u2014 emphatic<\/h3>\n

Notice the beauty of this verse, “the wrath of God” does not come upon you, but upon them<\/em>, as he says in Ephesians 2:3<\/span><\/a>: “[ye] were<\/em> the children of wrath,” but God has done something with you. He has given you life in Christ, you’ve been crucified with Christ, the old man is dead and you are “raised to walk in newness of life.”<\/span><\/h3>\n

Now that does not mean that the believer cannot fall into sin; or that the believer cannot fail, for he often fails. For this reason the apostle says that it is our responsibility as believers to constantly be “putting to death” that which is earthly in us, that old nature that would lead us back into sin again. And he says we should do it because of “these things [for which] the wrath of God cometh upon the children of disobedience.” The unsaved, the lost, will be punished for those things. Surely you ought not to practice them, just because you have been delivered from sin.<\/span><\/h3>\n

We have the same idea in the Ephesians epistle again, where in one breath the apostle makes two amazing statements: “And grieve<\/em> not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed<\/em> unto the day of redemption” (Ephesians 4:30<\/span><\/a>). \u2014 Stam, pages 177-178.<\/span><\/h3>\n

but now (v.8) \u2014 as opposed to “once walked” in v.7<\/h3>\n

put off (v.8) \u2014 tense indicates a decisive act<\/h3>\n

anger (v.8) = hatred<\/h3>\n

wrath (v.8) = outburst of passion<\/h3>\n

malice (v.8) = determination to do evil to someone<\/h3>\n

blasphemy (v.8) = (here) slandering, false accusations<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

5\u00a0Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6\u00a0Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, 7\u00a0in which you yourselves … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colossians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7462,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions\/7462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}