Colossians 3:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Do not make false statements to one another; because you have put away the old man with all his doings,

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Referenced Verses

  • Eph 4:22 : 22 That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;
  • Eph 4:25 : 25 And so, putting away false words, let everyone say what is true to his neighbour: for we are parts one of another.
  • Lev 19:11 : 11 Do not take anyone's property or be false in act or word to another.
  • Jer 9:3-5 : 3 Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord. 4 Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil. 5 Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.
  • Zeph 3:13 : 13 The rest of Israel will do no evil and say no false words; the tongue of deceit will not be seen in their mouth: for they will take their food and their rest, and no one will be a cause of fear to them.
  • John 8:44 : 44 You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.
  • Rom 6:6 : 6 Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.
  • Rev 22:15 : 15 Outside are the dogs, and those who make use of evil powers, those who make themselves unclean, and the takers of life, and those who give worship to images, and everyone whose delight is in what is false.
  • Zech 8:16 : 16 These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is true to his neighbour; and let your judging give peace in your towns.
  • Isa 63:8 : 8 For he said, Truly they are my people, children who will not be false: so he was their saviour out of all their trouble.
  • Col 3:8 : 8 But now it is right for you to put away all these things; wrath, passion, bad feeling, curses, unclean talk;
  • 1 Tim 1:10 : 10 For those who go after loose women, for those with unnatural desires, for those who take men prisoners, who make false statements and false oaths, and those who do any other things against the right teaching,
  • Titus 1:12-13 : 12 One of their prophets has said, The men of Crete are ever false, evil beasts, lovers of food, hating work. 13 This witness is true. So say sharp words to them so that they may come to the right faith,
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.
  • Rev 21:27 : 27 And nothing unclean may come into it, or anyone whose works are cursed or false; but only those whose names are in the Lamb's book of life.

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    5 Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;

    6 Because of which the wrath of God comes on those who go against his orders;

    7 Among whom you were living in the past, when you did such things.

    8 But now it is right for you to put away all these things; wrath, passion, bad feeling, curses, unclean talk;

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    20 For this was not the teaching of Christ which was given to you;

    21 If in fact you gave ear to him, and were given teaching in him, even as what is true is made clear in Jesus:

    22 That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

    23 And be made new in the spirit of your mind,

    24 And put on the new man, to which God has given life, in righteousness and a true and holy way of living.

    25 And so, putting away false words, let everyone say what is true to his neighbour: for we are parts one of another.

    26 Be angry without doing wrong; let not the sun go down on your wrath;

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    10 And have put on the new man, which has become new in knowledge after the image of his maker;

    11 Where there is no Greek or Jew, no one with circumcision or without circumcision, no division between nations, no servant or free man: but Christ is all and in all.

    12 As saints of God, then, holy and dearly loved, let your behaviour be marked by pity and mercy, kind feeling, a low opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, and a power of undergoing all things;

    13 Being gentle to one another and having forgiveness for one another, if anyone has done wrong to his brother, even as the Lord had forgiveness for you:

    14 And more than all, have love; the only way in which you may be completely joined together.

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    1 So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,

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    31 Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts;

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    12 The night is far gone, and the day is near: so let us put off the works of the dark, arming ourselves with light,

    13 With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy.

    14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.

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    11 Do not take anyone's property or be false in act or word to another.

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    2 To say no evil of any man, not to be fighters, to give way to others, to be gentle in behaviour to all men.

    3 For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

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    6 Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.

    7 Have no part with such men;

    8 For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light

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    14 But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.

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    22 And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

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    11 In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

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    2 And we have given up the secret things of shame, not walking in false ways, and not making use of the word of God with deceit; but by the revelation of what is true, as before God, we have the approval of every man's sense of right and wrong.

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    28 Let him who was a thief be so no longer, but let him do good work with his hands, so that he may have something to give to him who is in need.

    29 Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.

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    5 Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.

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    2 Through the false ways of men whose words are untrue, whose hearts are burned as with a heated iron;

  • 1 Pet 4:1-2
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    1 So that as Jesus was put to death in the flesh, do you yourselves be of the same mind; for the death of the flesh puts an end to sin;

    2 So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God.

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    14 Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:

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    11 Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One.

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    8 If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.

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    6 Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.

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    24 And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.

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    17 So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end; they have truly become new.