Colossians 3:7

Modern

When you lived among them, you also used to walk in these ways.

Traditional

In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.

Literal

…in which you also walked once when you were living in them.

Latin

…in quibus et vos ambulastis aliquando, cum viveretis in illis.

Greek

English

When you lived among them, you also used to walk in these ways.

Paul calls on the Colossians to adopt a new mindset that leads to a different way of living.

Theme notes and profiles

Ephesians 2:2
…in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
1 Peter 4:3–4
For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
Romans 6:19–20
I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.
Titus 3:3
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
1 Corinthians 6:11
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 Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Romans 7:5
For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
Colossians 2:13
When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,