Colossians 3:5-11
5 Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, 7 in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them. 8 But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, 10 and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, 11 where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all.
5 Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, 7 in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them. 8 But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, 10 and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, 11 where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all.
We who are regenerated must now kill off the old man of sinful desire remaining in us. This includes the thoughts and actions opposed to God and His Law such as sexual immorality, lust for all things ungodly, and idolatrous desire to have and worship what others have and we are convinced we must have. Remember that God’s wrath and judgement are going to be executed on all at the end who are not in Christ, so we who are in Him must loathe and leave these things behind as we are called to do. The attitudes out of the heart must also be hunted down and done away with such as anger, ill will to hurt others, lying, along with blasphemous and empty words. If we have put on the new man in Christ, we must also kill off this old man. We now are to be made more like Jesus each day, be renewed in the understanding of knowing Him as we are conforming to His image by His work in us. This applies to all in Christ, no matter if we were Jewish or not, slave or freemen. These things apply to all who now are in Christ. This war within is not easy, battles are won and lost, but victory is always available in Christ as we labor together to daily kill the old man and put on the new.
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