Colossians 3:5
New Testament • 12 words with Strong's data
"Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:"
Word-by-Word Analysis
כֵּן
kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner...
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
זָנָה
zânâh
to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (...
עֲגָבָה
ʻăgâbâh
love (abstractly), i.e. amorousness
אָהַב
ʼâhab
to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
רַע
raʻ
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
ἐπιθυμία
epithymía
a longing (especially for what is forbidden)
בֶּצַע
betsaʻ
plunder; by extension, gain (usually unjust)
זָנָה
zânâh
to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (...
Key Terms in This Verse
זָנָה zânâh
to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of ...
Study H2181 →זָנָה zânâh
to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of ...
Study H2181 →Cross References
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.
And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
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 Go...
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
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 ...
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.
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
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 brimst...
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.
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
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.
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
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:
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.
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.
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