in which also you once lived, when you used to live in them.[a] But now you also lay aside all these things: anger, rage, wickedness, slander, abusive language from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, because you[b] have taken off the old man together with his deeds,

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 3:7 Or “among them” (the pronoun may refer either to people or to sins)
  2. Colossians 3:9 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“have taken off”) which is understood as causal

You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.(A) But now you must also rid yourselves(B) of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander,(C) and filthy language from your lips.(D) Do not lie to each other,(E) since you have taken off your old self(F) with its practices

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