Colossians 3:7

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You also once walked in these ways, when you were living in them.

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  • Eph 2:2 : 2 In which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit now at work in those who are disobedient.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
  • 1 Pet 4:3-4 : 3 For you have already spent enough time in the past doing what the Gentiles choose to do, living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry. 4 They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you.
  • 1 Cor 6:11 : 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
  • Col 2:13 : 13 And when you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ, forgiving us all our trespasses.
  • Rom 6:19-20 : 19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you presented the parts of your body as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present them as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.
  • Rom 7:5 : 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.

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    8But now you must put away all these: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth.

    9Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old self with its practices,

    10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its Creator.

  • Eph 2:1-3
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    1And you were dead in your transgressions and sins.

    2In which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit now at work in those who are disobedient.

    3Among them we all also once lived in the desires of our flesh, carrying out the inclinations of the flesh and of the mind, and we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

  • Col 3:3-6
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    3For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

    4When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

    5Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

    6Because of these things, the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.

  • Eph 5:6-8
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    6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.

    7Therefore, do not be partners with them.

    8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.

  • Titus 3:3
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    3For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.

  • Eph 4:17-24
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    17Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their minds.

    18They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

    19They have become callous and have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

    20But that is not the way you learned Christ,

    21if indeed you have heard him and were taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus.

    22You were taught to put off your former way of life, the old self, which is corrupted by deceitful desires,

    23to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,

    24and to put on the new self, which is created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

  • 1 Pet 4:2-4
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    2As a result, you should no longer live the rest of your earthly life for human desires but instead for the will of God.

    3For you have already spent enough time in the past doing what the Gentiles choose to do, living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.

    4They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you.

  • Col 2:13-14
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    13And when you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ, forgiving us all our trespasses.

    14He erased the legal debt that stood against us with its decrees. He took it away, nailing it to the cross.

  • Col 1:21
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    21And you, who were once alienated and hostile in your minds because of your evil deeds,

  • Eph 4:31
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    31Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, shouting, and slander be removed from you, along with all malice.

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

  • Col 2:6
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    6Therefore, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in him.

  • 1 Pet 1:14
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    14As obedient children, do not conform to the desires you had when you lived in ignorance.

  • Col 4:5
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    5Conduct yourselves wisely toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunity.

  • Col 2:11
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    11In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not done by hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, through the circumcision of Christ.

  • Eph 5:15
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    15Be very careful, then, how you walk—not as unwise but as wise.

  • Col 3:13
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    13Bear with one another and forgive one another if anyone has a grievance against another. Just as the Lord forgave you, so also you must forgive.

  • Eph 2:11-13
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    11Therefore, remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh—who are called 'the uncircumcision' by those who are called 'the circumcision,' which is done in the flesh by human hands—

    12were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

    13But now in Christ Jesus, you who were once far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

  • Eph 4:26
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    26Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

  • Rom 13:13-14
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    13Let us walk properly, as in the daytime, not in revelries and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy.

    14But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.

  • Eph 2:5
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    5made us alive together with Christ, even when we were dead in our transgressions—by grace you have been saved.

  • Rom 6:21
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    21But what fruit did you produce then from the things you are now ashamed of? The outcome of those things is death.

  • 1 Thess 2:12
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    12encouraging, comforting, and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.

  • Eph 5:3
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    3But sexual immorality, all impurity, or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper for saints.

  • 1 Pet 2:1
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    1Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and every kind of slander.

  • Col 2:20
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    20If you died with Christ to the elemental principles of the world, why, as though still living in the world, do you submit to its decrees?

  • 1 Thess 4:5
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    5not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God.

  • Gal 5:16
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    16I say then, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.