Colossians 3:7
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“When you lived among them, you also used to walk in these ways.”
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BSBPD
“When you lived among them, you also used to walk in these ways.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“wherein ye also once walked, when ye lived in these things;”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“in which also ye--ye did walk once, when ye lived in them;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Colossians 3:7 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Romans 6:19I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.
- Romans 7:5For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
- 1 Corinthians 6:11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
- Ephesians 2:2in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
- Colossians 2:13When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,
- Titus 3:3For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
- 1 Peter 4:3For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
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