Colossians 3:5 (KJV)

Words Then and Now

concupiscence evil desire; lust Still heard today: concupiscence, still the theologians’ word for it, as in the Catholic catechism Webster’s 1828 · Concupiscence

What these words mean in the King James Bible, and where you’ll still hear them today.

Thou and Ye

your more than one

In the King James Bible, thee, thou, thy, and thine always mean one person, and ye, you, and your more than one: a difference modern English lost. Why keep these words?

Matthew Henry

To mortify all corrupt affectionsIt is our duty to mortify our members which incline to the things of the world. Mortify them, kill them, suppress them, as weeds or vermin which spread and...

Thompson Chains

ImpurityLink 8 of 11 · next 1 Thessalonians 4:7
LustLink 5 of 8 · next 1 Thessalonians 4:5
Evil PassionsSee the chain from Romans 1:26 · 4 links
Mortify the FleshSee the chain from Matthew 5:29 · 6 links

Cross References

Romans 8:13 For 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.
Galatians 5:19–21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, …
Romans 6:13 Neither 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.
1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
2 Corinthians 12:21 And 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.
Galatians 5:24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
Ephesians 4:19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
Ephesians 5:3–6 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; …
1 Peter 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
1 Corinthians 6:9–10 Know 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, …
1 Corinthians 6:13 Meats 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.
Revelation 21:8 But 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.
Revelation 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Mark 7:21–22 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, …
Romans 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Romans 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Romans 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Romans 7:5 For 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.
Romans 7:7–8 What 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. …
Romans 7:23 But 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.
1 Corinthians 5:1 It 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.
1 Corinthians 5:10–11 Yet 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. …
1 Corinthians 10:6–8 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. …
1 Thessalonians 4:3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
1 Thessalonians 4:5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
Hebrews 12:16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
Hebrews 13:4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
James 4:1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

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Topics

Adultery Forbidden
Affections Carnal, should be mortified
Chastity General scriptures concerning
Commandments Precepts of Paul. explicitly stated or implied in didactic epistles
Continence General scriptures concerning
Covetousness General scriptures concerning
Depravity of man General scriptures concerning
Holiness General scriptures concerning
Lasciviousness General scriptures concerning
Righteousness Fruits of
Self-denial General scriptures concerning
Worldliness General scriptures concerning

Timeline

Timeline of the BibleAbout AD 65 · The Epistle to the Colossians

Greek and Strong’s

Mortify Νεκρώσατε Nekrōsate νεκρόω Verb · aorist active imperative, second person plural
therefore οὖν oun οὖν Conjunction
your ὑμῶν hymōn Pronoun · second person, genitive plural ὑμῶν hymōn
members τὰ ta Article · accusative neuter plural μέλη melē μέλος Noun · accusative neuter plural
which τὰ ta ὁ Pronoun · accusative neuter plural
are upon ἐπὶ epi ἐπί Preposition
the earth τῆς tēs Article · genitive feminine singular γῆς gēs γῆ Noun · genitive feminine singular
fornication πορνείαν porneian πορνεία Noun · accusative feminine singular
uncleanness ἀκαθαρσίαν akatharsian ἀκαθαρσία Noun · accusative feminine singular
inordinate affection πάθος pathos πάθος Noun · accusative neuter singular
evil κακήν kakēn κακός Adjective · accusative feminine singular
concupiscence ἐπιθυμίαν epithymian ἐπιθυμία Noun · accusative feminine singular
and καὶ kai καί Conjunction
covetousness τὴν tēn Article · accusative feminine singular πλεονεξίαν pleonexian πλεονεξία Noun · accusative feminine singular
which ἥτις hētis ὅστις Pronoun · nominative feminine singular
is ἐστὶν estin Verb · present active indicative, third person singular ἐστί estí
idolatry εἰδωλολατρεία eidōlolatreia εἰδωλολατρεία Noun · nominative feminine singular

Greek: KJTR, Alan Bunning, CNTR · CC BY 4.0