Colossians 3:5-11 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Colossians 3:5-7

The apostle exhorts the Colossians to the mortification of sin, the great hindrance to seeking the things which are above. Since it is our duty to set our affections upon heavenly things, it is our duty to mortify our members which are upon the earth, and which naturally incline us to the things of the world: ?Mortify them, that is, subdue the vicious habits of mind which prevailed in your Gentile state. Kill them, suppress them, as you do weeds or vermin which spread and destroy all about... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Colossians 3:8-11

As we are to mortify inordinate appetites, so we are to mortify inordinate passions (Col. 3:8): But now you also put off all these, anger wrath, malice; for these are contrary to the design of the gospel, as well as grosser impurities; and, though they are more spiritual wickedness, have not less malignity in them. The gospel religion introduces a change of the higher as well as the lower powers of the soul, and supports the dominion of right reason and conscience over appetite and passion.... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Colossians 3:5-9

3:5-9a So, then, put to death these parts of you which are earthly-- fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, the desire to get more than you ought--for this is idol worship; and because of these things the wrath of God comes upon those who are disobedient. It was amongst these things that you once spent your lives; when you lived among them; but now you must divest yourselves of all these things--anger, temper, malice, slander, foul talk which issues from your mouth. Do not lie to one... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Colossians 3:5-9

In Colossians 3:8 Paul says that there are certain things of which the Colossians must strip themselves. The word he uses is the word for putting off clothes. There is here a picture from the life of the early Christian. When the Christian was baptized, he put off his old clothes when he went down into the water and when he emerged he put on a new and pure white robe. He divested himself of one kind of life and put on another. In this passage Paul speaks of the things of which the Christian... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Colossians 3:9

3:9b-13 Strip off the old self with all its activities. Put on the new self, which is ever freshly renewed until it reaches fullness of knowledge, in the likeness of its creator. In it there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free man, but Christ is all in all. So then, as the chosen of God, dedicated and beloved, clothe yourself with a heart of pity, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience. Bear with one another, and, if anyone has a... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Colossians 3:9

Paul moves on to give his list of the great graces with which the Colossians must clothe themselves. Before we study the list in detail, we must note two very significant things. (i) Paul begins by addressing the Colossians as chosen of God, dedicated and beloved. The significant thing is that every one of these three words originally belonged, as it were, to the Jews. They were the chosen people; they were the dedicated nation, they were the beloved of God. Paul takes these three precious... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Colossians 3:5

Mortify therefore your members ,.... Not your bodies, as the Ethiopic version reads, nor the members of the natural body, but of the body of sin, indwelling sin; which as a body consists of various members, which are parts of it, rise out of it, and are used by it, as the members are by the body; and intend the sins of the flesh, or sinful actions, which are generally performed by the members of the natural body, in which the law of sin is, and by which it operates; so that the mortification... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Colossians 3:6

For which things' sake ,.... Those sins above mentioned, Colossians 3:5 , the wrath of God ; the effects of it in temporal judgments, and eternal ruin and destruction, the wrath to come, which all are deserving of, and there is only deliverance from by Christ: cometh upon the children of disobedience : who are disobedient both to the law of God, and Gospel of Christ: who are unbelievers in him, are rebellious and gainsaying, reject his calls, the persuasions of his ministers, set... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Colossians 3:7

In the which ye also walked some time ,.... Either in or among the children of disobedience, Colossians 3:6 , or rather in the afore mentioned sins, Colossians 3:5 . Sin is a road or path, in which sinners walk a way of their own, or of their own choosing and approving, though a dark and crooked one, and which leads to destruction: walking herein denotes a continued series of sinning, a persisting in it, a progress therein, a proceeding from evil to evil, taking pleasure, and going on... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Colossians 3:8

But now you also put off all these ,.... Intimating, that now since they were converted and delivered out of the former state in which they were once, and professed not to walk and live in sin, it became them to separate, remove, and put at a distance from them all sins, and every vice, to lay them aside as dead weights upon them, and put them off as filthy garments; for such sins are never to be put on, and cleaved to again as formerly; and that not only those, the above mentioned,... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Colossians 3:5-7

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Colossians 3:8-11

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Colossians 3:5-9

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Colossians 3:5-9

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Colossians 3:9

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Colossians 3:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Colossians 3:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Colossians 3:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Colossians 3:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Colossians 3:8

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