Colossians 3:7
New International Version
You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.

New Living Translation
You used to do these things when your life was still part of this world.

English Standard Version
In these you too once walked, when you were living in them.

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

Berean Literal Bible
in which you also once walked when you were living in them.

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

New King James Version
in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.

New American Standard Bible
and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them.

NASB 1995
and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them.

NASB 1977
and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them.

Legacy Standard Bible
and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them.

Amplified Bible
and in these [sinful things] you also once walked, when you were habitually living in them [without the knowledge of Christ].

Christian Standard Bible
and you once walked in these things when you were living in them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
and you once walked in these things when you were living in them.

American Standard Version
wherein ye also once walked, when ye lived in these things;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And you walked also in these things from the first, when you were employed in these things.

Contemporary English Version
And this is exactly what you did, when you lived among people who behaved in this way.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In which you also walked some time, when you lived in them.

English Revised Version
in the which ye also walked aforetime, when ye lived in these things.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You used to live that kind of sinful life.

Good News Translation
At one time you yourselves used to live according to such desires, when your life was dominated by them.

International Standard Version
You used to behave like them as you lived among them.

Literal Standard Version
in which you also—you once walked, when you lived in them;

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

New American Bible
By these you too once conducted yourselves, when you lived in that way.

NET Bible
You also lived your lives in this way at one time, when you used to live among them.

New Revised Standard Version
These are the ways you also once followed, when you were living that life.

New Heart English Bible
You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

Webster's Bible Translation
In which ye also walked formerly, when ye lived with them.

Weymouth New Testament
and you also were once addicted to them, while you were living under their power.

World English Bible
You also once walked in those, when you lived in them,

Young's Literal Translation
in which also ye -- ye did walk once, when ye lived in them;

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Putting on the New Self
6Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. 7When you lived among them, you also used to walk in these ways. 8But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.…

Cross References
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.

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.


Treasury of Scripture

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

Colossians 2:13
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

Romans 6:19,20
I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness…

Romans 7:5
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.

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Colossians 3
1. He shows where we should seek Christ.
5. He exhorts to holiness;
10. to put off the old self, and put on Christ;
12. exhorting to charity, humility,
18. and other duties.














(7) In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived (were living) in them.--The former condition of heathenism was that in which "they were living," with contagion of evil on every side. But St. Paul is not content without noting their own active participation--"ye walked in them." (Comp. Ephesians 4:17-20.)

Verse 7. - In which also ye walked once, when you were living in these (things) (Ephesians 2:3; Ephesians 5:8; Romans 6:19-21; 1 Corinthians 6:11; 1 Corinthians 12:2; Titus 3:3; 1 Peter 4:3). Even retaining "sons of disobedience" in ver. 6, it seems better, with Alford, Lightfoot, and the English Version, to read οῖς as neuter, "in which," referring to the same antecedent (ver. 5)as "because of which" in ver. 6; not "amongst whom" (Ellicott, Meyer). The latter interpretation is against the general usage of "walk in" with St. Paul (Colossians 4:5; Ephesians 2:2, 10; Ephesians 4:17; Ephesians 5:2; Romans 6:4; 2 Corinthians 4:2), and seems to condemn the mere fact of living "amongst the sons of disobedience" (see, on the other hand, 1 Corinthians 5:9, 10; Philippians 2:15; John 17:15; 1 Peter 2:12). The parallel "because of which" (ver. 6) gives also its force: these sins are visited with the Divine anger, and moreover are the very sins in which the Colossians aforetime had lived; observe the same connection in Ephesians 5:6-8; 1 Corinthians 6:10, 11. "Were living" stands opposed to "make dead" of ver. 5, and to "ye died" (ver. 3: comp. Colossians 2:20; Galatians 2:20); it marks the time when "the old man" (ver. 9), with his "earthly members" (ver. 5) was alive and active (comp. Romans 7:5, 9, "sin came to life"). "In these things" (τούτοις, not αὐτοῖς: Revised Text) points to the things enumerated in ver. 6, with a mental gesture of contempt.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
When
ὅτε (hote)
Adverb
Strong's 3753: When, at which time. From hos and te; at which too, i.e. When.

you lived
ἐζῆτε (ezēte)
Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 2198: To live, be alive. A primary verb; to live.

among
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

them,
τούτοις (toutois)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Dative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

you
ὑμεῖς (hymeis)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

also
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

used to
ποτε (pote)
Particle
Strong's 4218: At one time or other, at some time, formerly. From the base of pou and te; indefinite adverb, at some time, ever.

walk
περιεπατήσατέ (periepatēsate)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4043: From peri and pateo; to tread all around, i.e. Walk at large; figuratively, to live, deport oneself, follow.

in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

these ways.
οἷς (hois)
Personal / Relative Pronoun - Dative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3739: Who, which, what, that.


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