Colossians 3:7 - Plain English Version7 At one time, you lived the wrong way, and you did bad things like that. Ver CapítuloMás versionesKing James Version (Oxford) 17697 in the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. Ver CapítuloAmplified Bible - Classic Edition7 Among whom you also once walked, when you were living in and addicted to [such practices]. Ver CapítuloAmerican Standard Version (1901)7 wherein ye also once walked, when ye lived in these things; Ver CapítuloCommon English Bible7 You used to live this way, when you were alive to these things. Ver CapítuloCatholic Public Domain Version7 You, too, walked in these things, in times past, when you were living among them. Ver Capítulo |
You know, we were like that before we believed in Jesus. We did silly things too. We didn’t do what God told us to do. People tricked us, and we believed things that were not true. And we wanted to do all sorts of bad things. We couldn’t stop ourselves. If anybody had a lot of things, we wanted those things for ourselves, and we were angry with those people. We hated people, and people hated us.
You did bad things before. Your spirits still had that bad part that made you go wrong. It is like your spirits were dead. I will use picture talk to show you what I mean. Whenever you did bad things, it is like somebody wrote it down on paper so they could blame you later. But God let them blame Jesus instead of you, and then God chucked that paper away. It is like he nailed that paper to the cross when he let people nail Jesus there. And then God made your spirits alive again, just like he made Jesus alive again. Now he doesn’t blame you for the bad things you did.
You know, we all have a bad part in us that wants us to do bad things. And at first, when we didn’t believe in Jesus, that bad part in us was our boss. And when that law told us not to do bad things, that bad part in us made us think about those bad things and want to do them, and so we did them anyway. So we had to die.