Colossians 3:5 - Tree of Life Version

⁵ Therefore, put to death what is earthly in you—sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed—for that is idolatry.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ So kill (deaden, deprive of power) the evil desire lurking in your members [those animal impulses and all that is earthly in you that is employed in sin]: sexual vice, impurity, sensual appetites, unholy desires, and all greed and covetousness, for that is idolatry (the deifying of self and other created things instead of God).

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

Common English Bible

⁵ So put to death the parts of your life that belong to the earth, such as sexual immorality, moral corruption, lust, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Therefore, mortify your body, while it is upon the earth. For because of fornication, impurity, lust, evil desires, and avarice, which are a kind of service to idols,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is the service of idols.

Colossians 3:5 Cross References

Exodus 37:22

Their bulbs and their branches were one piece with it, an entire hammered work of pure gold.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, and slander.

Romans 1:26

For this reason God gave them up to shameful passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for what is against nature.

Romans 1:29

They became filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice. They are gossips,

Romans 6:13

And do not keep yielding your body parts to sin as tools of wickedness; but yield yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your body parts as tools of righteousness to God.

Romans 6:6

knowing our old man was crucified with Him so that the sinful body might be done away with, so we no longer serve sin.

Romans 7:23

but I see a different law in my body parts, battling against the law of my mind and bringing me into bondage under the law of sin which is in my body parts.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions that came through the Torah were working in our body parts to bear fruit for death.

Romans 8:13

For if you live according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Ruach you put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live.

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is actually reported that among you there is sexual immorality, and such immorality as is not even among the pagans—that someone has his father’s wife.

1 Corinthians 6:11

That is what some of you were—but you were washed, you were made holy, you were set right in the name of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah and by the Ruach of our God.

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food”—but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee from sexual immorality! Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body—but the one committing sexual immorality sins against his own body.

2 Corinthians 12:21

I am afraid that when I come again my God may humiliate me before you, and I will mourn for many of those who have sinned before and not repented of the impurity and sexual immorality and indecency which they committed.

Galatians 5:24

Now those who belong to Messiah have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Ephesians 4:19

Since they are past feeling, they have turned themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of immorality, with greed for more.

Colossians 2:11

In Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision done not by hand, in the stripping away of the body of the flesh through the circumcision of Messiah.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is the will of God—your sanctification: to abstain from sexual immorality;

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in the passion of lust like the pagans who do not know God;

1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil—some, longing for it, have gone astray from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Hebrews 12:16

Also see to it that there is no immoral or godless person—like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Hebrews 13:5

Keep your lifestyle free from the love of money, and be content with what you have. For God Himself has said, “I will never leave you or forsake you,”

James 4:1

Where do quarrels and conflicts among you come from? Don’t they come from this, namely your passions that battle within your body parts?

1 Peter 2:11

Loved ones, I urge you as strangers and sojourners to keep away from the fleshly cravings that war against the soul.

Revelation 21:8

But for the cowardly and faithless and detestable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars—their lot is in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.