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

θανατόω

thanatóō

G2289

θανατόω

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כֵּן

kên

H3651

properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner...

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your

יָצֻר

yâtsur

H3338

structure, i.e. limb or part

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which are upon the

אֶרֶץ

ʼerets

H776

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

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זָנָה

zânâh

H2181

to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (...

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טֻמְאָה

ṭumʼâh

H2932

religious impurity

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עֲגָבָה

ʻăgâbâh

H5691

love (abstractly), i.e. amorousness

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אָהַב

ʼâhab

H157

to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)

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רַע

raʻ

H7451

bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)

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ἐπιθυμία

epithymía

G1939

a longing (especially for what is forbidden)

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בֶּצַע

betsaʻ

H1215

plunder; by extension, gain (usually unjust)

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which is

זָנָה

zânâh

H2181

to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (...

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Key Terms in This Verse

Mortify G2289

θανατόω thanatóō

θανατόω

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inordinate H5691

עֲגָבָה ʻăgâbâh

love (abstractly), i.e. amorousness

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concupiscence G1939

ἐπιθυμία epithymía

a longing (especially for what is forbidden)

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idolatry 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 ...

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affection H157

אָהַב ʼâhab

to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)

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covetousness H1215

בֶּצַע betsaʻ

plunder; by extension, gain (usually unjust)

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members H3338

יָצֻר yâtsur

structure, i.e. limb or part

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fornication 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 ...

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uncleanness H2932

טֻמְאָה ṭumʼâh

religious impurity

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evil H7451

רַע raʻ

bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)

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Cross References

Romans 8:13 cross-reference

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.

Galatians 5:24 cross-reference

And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

1 Peter 2:11 cross-reference

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Romans 6:13 cross-reference

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...

1 Corinthians 6:18 cross-reference

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Ephesians 4:19 cross-reference

Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

Matthew 15:19 cross-reference

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

2 Corinthians 12:21 cross-reference

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 ...

Romans 7:23 cross-reference

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.

James 4:1 cross-reference

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

Revelation 21:8 cross-reference

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...

Romans 6:6 cross-reference

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.

Revelation 22:15 cross-reference

For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

1 Corinthians 6:13 cross-reference

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.

Hebrews 13:4 cross-reference

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Hebrews 12:16 cross-reference

Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

1 Thessalonians 4:5 cross-reference

Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

Romans 1:29 cross-reference

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

1 Thessalonians 4:3 cross-reference

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

Romans 1:26 cross-reference

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:

Romans 7:5 cross-reference

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.

1 Corinthians 5:1 cross-reference

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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