Passage

Colossians 3.5

Book: Colossians · ASV / WEB / KJV / YLT

Immediate context (±2 verses)

ASV (ASV)

"3. For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4. When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory."

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

"6. for which things' sake cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience: 7. wherein ye also once walked, when ye lived in these things;" (Colossians 3:3-7, ASV)

WEB (WEB)

"3. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4. When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory."

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

"6. for which things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. 7. You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;" (Colossians 3:3-7, WEB)

KJV (KJV)

"3. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory."

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

"6. For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: 7. In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them." (Colossians 3:3-7, KJV)

YLT (YLT)

"3. for ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the Christ in God; 4. when the Christ, our life, may be manifested, then also we with him shall be manifested in glory."

"5. Put to death, then, your members that [are] upon the earth, whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --"

"6. because of which things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience, 7. in which also ye, ye did walk once, when ye lived in them;" (Colossians 3:3-7, YLT)

Setting

Speaker: Paul the Apostle (imprisonment) + Timothy
Audience: Christian believers in Colossae (Asia Minor)
Location: composed during Roman imprisonment
Time period: composed c. AD 60-62

Theological reading

Key words

No Strong's-tagged lexicon matches found in this passage. (Lexicon coverage is curated, ~159 of the most apologetically-loaded Greek/Hebrew terms.)

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Why these four translations

ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the most literal English translations available (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the public domain in the United States, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance.

The four:

ASV (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
WEB (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
KJV (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
YLT (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.

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