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Colossians 3:5
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Colossians 3:5
5Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
5Mortifie therefore your members which are vpon the earth: fornication, vncleannesse, inordinate affection, euill concupiscence, and couetousnesse, which is idolatrie:
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DEFINED WORDS
Colossians 3:5
To put to death or subdue the sinful deeds and desires of the body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Limbs or subordinate parts of bodies; individual constituents belonging to larger bodies.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The ground or dry land; the world or inhabited realm; or a country and its people, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
fornication
Sexual intercourse outside lawful marriage; sexual uncleanness.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
uncleanness
Moral impurity; defilement by sin; sinfulness. Foulness; dirtiness; filthiness.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
inordinate
Out of order, disordered.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
A feeling, desire, inclination, or attachment of the mind and heart.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
concupiscence
Lust; fleshly or unlawful desire.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · Cawdrey 1604 · Skeat 1893
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
covetousness
A selfish or inordinate desire to possess or gain, especially wealth or property.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The worship or service of idols; the KJV also expressly calls covetousness idolatry.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study13For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
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Open the full verse study19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
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Open the full verse study24And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
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Open the full verse study11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
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Open the full verse study9Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
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Open the full verse study3But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
4Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
5For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
6Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
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Open the full verse study13Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
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Open the full verse study18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
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Open the full verse study19Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
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Open the full verse study21For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
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Open the full verse study21And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
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Open the full verse study19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
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Open the full verse study23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
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Open the full verse study1FROM whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
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Open the full verse study8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
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Open the full verse study7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
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Open the full verse study6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
7Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
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Open the full verse study1IT is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.
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Open the full verse study13Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
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Open the full verse study3For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
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Open the full verse study4Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
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Open the full verse study15For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
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Open the full verse study6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
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Open the full verse study5Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
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Open the full verse study16Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
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Open the full verse study26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
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Open the full verse study29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
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Open the full verse study5For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
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Open the full verse study10Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
11But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
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