Colossians 3:9
New International Version
Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices

New Living Translation
Don’t lie to each other, for you have stripped off your old sinful nature and all its wicked deeds.

English Standard Version
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices

Berean Standard Bible
Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices,

Berean Literal Bible
Do not lie to one another, having put off the old man with his practices,

King James Bible
Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

New King James Version
Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds,

New American Standard Bible
Do not lie to one another, since you stripped off the old self with its evil practices,

NASB 1995
Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices,

NASB 1977
Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices,

Legacy Standard Bible
Do not lie to one another, since you put off the old man with its evil practices,

Amplified Bible
Do not lie to one another, for you have stripped off the old self with its evil practices,

Christian Standard Bible
Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old self with its practices

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old self with its practices

American Standard Version
lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Neither should you cheat one another, but put off the old man with all of his ways,

Contemporary English Version
And stop lying to each other. You have given up your old way of life with its habits.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lie not one to another: stripping yourselves of the old man with his deeds,

English Revised Version
lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Don't lie to each other. You've gotten rid of the person you used to be and the life you used to live,

Good News Translation
Do not lie to one another, for you have put off the old self with its habits

International Standard Version
Do not lie to one another, for you have stripped off the old nature with its practices

Literal Standard Version
Do not lie to one another, having put off the old man with his practices,

Majority Standard Bible
Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices,

New American Bible
Stop lying to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices

NET Bible
Do not lie to one another since you have put off the old man with its practices

New Revised Standard Version
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with its practices

New Heart English Bible
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices,

Webster's Bible Translation
Lie not one to another, seeing ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

Weymouth New Testament
Do not speak falsehoods to one another, for you have stripped off the old self with its doings,

World English Bible
Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

Young's Literal Translation
Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Putting on the New Self
8But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices, 10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.…

Cross References
Proverbs 13:5
The righteous hate falsehood, but the wicked bring shame and disgrace.

Romans 6:6
We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

Ephesians 4:22
to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;

Ephesians 4:25
Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.


Treasury of Scripture

Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds;

Lie.

Leviticus 19:11
Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

Isaiah 63:8
For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.

Jeremiah 9:3-5
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD…

ye.

Colossians 3:8
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

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.

Ephesians 4:22
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

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Colossians 3
1. He shows where we should seek Christ.
5. He exhorts to holiness;
10. to put off the old self, and put on Christ;
12. exhorting to charity, humility,
18. and other duties.














(9) Lie not one to another.--Comp. Ephesians 4:25, and note the characteristic insertion there of a clause to which there is nothing here to correspond, "for we are members one of another."

Seeing that ye (have) put off the old man.--Comp. the fuller description of Ephesians 4:22-24.

Verse 9. - Lie not one to another, having stripped off the old man with his deeds (Ephesians 4:14, 15; 20-25; 1 Timothy 1:6; Revelation 21:8; Colossians 2:11; Romans 6:6; Romans 8:12, 13; Galatians 5:16, 24). The imperatives of vers. 5 and 8 were aorists, enjoining a single, decisive act; this is present, as in vers. 1, 2, 15, 18, etc., giving a rule of life. Only in Colossians and Ephesians do we find the apostle give a general warning against lying. What reason there was for this we cannot tell; unless it lay in the deceit of the heretical teachers (Colossians 2:8: comp. Ephesians 4:14, 15; Acts 20:30; 2 Corinthians 11:13; 1 Timothy 4:2; 2 Peter 2:1; 1 John 4:1; Revelation 2:2; Revelation 3:9). The lying in question is uttered within the Church ("to one another"), and is fatal to its unity (ver. 11; Ephesians 4:25; Acts 20:28-30). The following aorist participles, "having stripped off" and "having put on" (ver. 10), may, grammatically, be part of the command - "strip off," etc., and "lie not" - as e.g. in 1 Thessalonians 5:8; Hebrews 12:1; or may state the fact on which that command is based. The latter view is preferable (Meyer, Alford, Ellicott, English Version; but see Lightfoot); for the participles describe a change already realized - a change of principle, which has, however, still to be more fully carried out in practice (Colossians 2:11-13, 20; Colossians 3:1, 3, 7, 11; Ephesians 4:20-24; Galatians 3:27, 28): in ver. 12 the imperative mood is resumed with an emphatic "therefore," implying a previous reference to fact. (On the double compound ἀπ εκ δυσάμενοι, "having stripped off (and put) away," see notes, Colossians 2:11, 15.) The "Old man"; is the former self, the "I no longer living" (Galatians 2:20) of the Colossian believer, to whom "the members that are upon the earth" (ver. 5) belonged - the entire sinful personality of "him who is in the flesh" (Romans 8:8). His "deeds" ("practices," "habits of doing," Romans 8:13; see Trench's 'Synonyms' on πράσσω) are the pursuits of which vers. 5, 8, 9 supply examples.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
{Do} not
Μὴ (Mē)
Adverb
Strong's 3361: Not, lest. A primary particle of qualified negation; not, lest; also (whereas ou expects an affirmative one) whether.

lie
ψεύδεσθε (pseudesthe)
Verb - Present Imperative Middle - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 5574: To deceive, lie, speak falsely. Middle voice of an apparently primary verb; to utter an untruth or attempt to deceive by falsehood.

to
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

one another,
ἀλλήλους (allēlous)
Personal / Reciprocal Pronoun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 240: One another, each other. Genitive plural from allos reduplicated; one another.

since you have taken off
ἀπεκδυσάμενοι (apekdysamenoi)
Verb - Aorist Participle Middle - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 554: To strip, divest, renounce. Middle voice from apo and ekduo; to divest wholly oneself, or despoil.

the
τὸν (ton)
Article - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

old
παλαιὸν (palaion)
Adjective - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3820: Old, ancient, not new or recent. From palai; antique, i.e. Not recent, worn out.

self
ἄνθρωπον (anthrōpon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 444: A man, one of the human race. From aner and ops; man-faced, i.e. A human being.

with
σὺν (syn)
Preposition
Strong's 4862: With. A primary preposition denoting union; with or together.

[its]
αὐτοῦ (autou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

practices,
πράξεσιν (praxesin)
Noun - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's 4234: From prasso; practice, i.e. an act; by extension, a function.


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