Verse 5

Therefore, put to death your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Other Translations

• Bibeloversettelse fra KJV1611 og Textus Receptus

  Drep derfor deres lemmer som er på jorden; utukt, urenhet, lidenskap, ondsinnet begjær, og grådighet, som er avgudsdyrkelse.

• NT, oversatt fra gresk

  Drep derfor deres lemmer som tilhører jorden: seksualitet, urenhet, lidenskap, ond begjæring og grådighet, som er avgudsdyrkelse;

• Norsk King James

  Barn derfor de delene av dere som hører jorden til; utukt, urenhet, overdrevet begjær, ondt begjær og grådighet, som er avgudsdyrkelse.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Død derfor deres jordiske gjøremål: hor, urenhet, lidenskap, ond lyst og grådighet, som er avgudsdyrkelse.

• KJV/Textus Receptus til norsk

  Så døde da deres lemmer som er på jorden; utukt, urenhet, syndig lidenskap, ond lyst og griskhet, som er avgudsdyrkelse:

• Den norske oversettelsen av Det Nye Testamente

  Drep derfor de jordiske lemmene i dere: hor, urenhet, lidenskap, ond begjær, og grådighet, som er avgudsdyrkelse.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Drep derfor de jordiske delene i dere: Utukt, urenhet, lidenskap, ond lyst og grådighet, som er avgudsdyrkelse.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Undertrykk derfor deres jordiske ledd: utukt, urenhet, overdreven lidenskap, ond begjær og grådighet, som alle er former for avgudsdyrkelse.

• gpt4.5-preview

  La derfor det jordiske i dere dø; hor, urenhet, ukontrollerte lidenskaper, ondt begjær og grådighet, som er avgudsdyrkelse.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  La derfor det jordiske i dere dø; hor, urenhet, ukontrollerte lidenskaper, ondt begjær og grådighet, som er avgudsdyrkelse.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Legg da det jordiske i dere dødt: utukt, urenhet, lidenskap, ond begjær og griskhet, som er avgudsdyrkelse.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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

• biblecontext

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• NT, oversatt fra gresk Aug2024

  Avvis derfor deres jordiske lyster: utukt, urenhet, lidenskap, ond lyst og grådighet, som er avgudsdyrkelse.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Døder derfor eders jordiske Lemmer, Horeri, Ureenhed, Blødagtighed, ond Lyst og Gjerrighed, som er en Afgudsdyrkelse;

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

• KJV 1769 norsk

  La derfor det jordiske i dere dø: utukt, urenhet, lidenskap, ond begjær, og grådighet, som er avgudsdyrkelse.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Så drep da deres jordiske lemmer: hor, urenhet, syndige lyster, onde begjær, og grådighet, som er avgudsdyrkelse.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  La derfor deres jordiske menigheter dø - hor, urenhet, lidenskap, ond lyst og havesyke, som er avgudsdyrkelse.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Så drep da deres jordiske tilbøyeligheter: utukt, urenhet, begjær, ondt lyst og grådighet, som er avgudsdyrkelse.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Drep da det jordiske i dere; gal bruk av kroppen, urenhet, lidenskap, onde lyster og misunnelse, som er tilbedelse av fremmede guder.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  Mortifie therfore youre membres which are on the erth fornicacio vnclennes vnnaturall lust evyll cocupiscece and coveteousnes which is worshippynge of ydols:

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Mortifye therfore youre mebres which are vpon earth, whordome, vnclennes, vnnaturall lust, euell concupiscece, and couetousnes, which is a worshippynge of Idols:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Mortifie therefore your members which are on the earth, fornication, vncleannes, the inordinate affection, euill concupiscence, and couetousnes which is idolatrie.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Mortifie therefore your members which are vpon the earth: fornication, vncleannesse, inordinate affection, euyll concupiscence, and couetousnesse, which is worshippyng of images:

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Put to death, then, your members that `are' upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  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;

• World English Bible (2000)

  Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

Referenced Verses

• Gal 5:19-21 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousy, wrath, strife, seditious, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
• Rom 8:13 : 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
• 1 Cor 6:18 : 18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.
• Rom 6:13 : 13 And do not yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
• Gal 5:24 : 24 And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
• Eph 4:19 : 19 Who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
• Eph 5:3-6 : 3 But sexual immorality, and all impurity, or greed, let it not even be mentioned among you, as is proper for saints; 4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse joking, which are not fitting: but rather giving of thanks. 5 For this you know, that no sexually immoral, unclean, or greedy person, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words: for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience.
• 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Dearly beloved, I urge you as strangers and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul;
• 2 Cor 12:21 : 21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall mourn for many who have sinned already and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
• Rev 21:8 : 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and sexually immoral, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
• Rev 22:15 : 15 For outside are dogs, and sorcerers, and sexually immoral, and murderers, and idolaters, and whoever loves and makes a lie.
• 1 Cor 6:9-9 : 9 Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
• 1 Cor 6:13 : 13 Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food; 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.
• 1 Cor 5:1 : 1 It is commonly reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that a man has his father's wife.
• 1 Cor 5:10-11 : 10 Yet not entirely with the sexually immoral of this world, or with the greedy, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone who is called a brother if he is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.
• 1 Cor 10:6-8 : 6 Now these things were our examples, so we should not desire evil things, as they also desired. 7 Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. 8 Do not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
• 1 Thess 4:3 : 3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication:
• 1 Thess 4:5 : 5 Not in passionate lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God:
• Heb 12:16 : 16 Lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.
• Heb 13:4 : 4 Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
• Jas 4:1 : 1 From where do wars and fights among you come? Do they not come from your desires that war within your members?
• Rom 7:5 : 5 For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, worked in our members to bear fruit to death.
• Rom 7:7-8 : 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not. Indeed, I would not have known sin except through the law: for I would not have known lust unless the law had said, 'You shall not covet.' 8 But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, worked in me all kinds of covetousness. For without the law, sin was dead.
• Rom 7:23 : 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.
• Matt 15:19 : 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
• Mark 7:21-22 : 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
• Rom 1:26 : 26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions: for even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature.
• Rom 1:29 : 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers,
• Rom 6:6 : 6 Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.