Colossians 3 · Verse 7

Colossians 3:7

In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
Colossians 3:7, King James Version

Colossians 3:7 in other translations

BSBWhen you lived among them, you also used to walk in these ways.
WEBYou also once walked in those, when you lived in them,
ASVwherein ye also once walked, when ye lived in these things;
YLTin which also ye--ye did walk once, when ye lived in them;
DARBYIn which ye also once walked when ye lived in these things.
BBEAmong whom you were living in the past, when you did such things.
WebsterIn which ye also walked formerly, when ye lived with them.

What does Colossians 3:7 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
7. sometime--"once." walked ... when ye lived in them--These sins were the very element in which ye "lived" (before ye became once for all dead with Christ to them); no wonder, then, that ye "walked" in them. Compare on the opposite side, "living in the Spirit," having as its legitimate consequence, "walking in the Spirit" (Ga 5:25). The "living" comes first in both cases, the walking follows.

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Barnes' Notes
Verse 7. In the which. In all which evil passions.

Ye also walked some time. You formerly lived. These were the common vices of the heathen. Eph 5:8; 1Cor 6:10; 1Cor 6:11. Comp. Rom 1:24, and Rom 1:25-32.

(d) "In the which" Tit 3:3

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 7 In the which ye also walked sometime - When ye were in your unconverted state, ye served divers lusts and pleasures. See on Rom 7:5 (note), and Eph 2:2 (note).

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Colossians 3:5-11

It is our duty to mortify our members which incline to the things of the world. Mortify them, kill them, suppress them, as weeds or vermin which spread and destroy all about them. Continual opposition must be made to all corrupt workings, and no provision made for carnal indulgences. Occasions of sin must be avoided: the lusts of the flesh, and the love of the world; and covetousness, which is idolatry; love of…

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Colossians 3:7 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

ἐνeninG1722
οἷςhoiswhichG3739
καὶkaialsoG2532
ὑμεῖςhumeisyou yourselvesG4771
περιεπατήσατέperiepatēsatewalkedG4043
ποτε,poteonceG4218
ὅτεhotewhenG3753
ἐζῆτεezēteyou were livingG2198
ἐνeninG1722
τούτοις.¶toutoisthem.G3778

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Colossians 3:7

  • Ephesians 2:2

    Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

  • 1 Peter 4:3-4

    For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

  • 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. For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

  • Titus 3:3

    For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

  • 1 Corinthians 6:11

    And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

  • 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 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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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2:13; Ro 6:19,20; 7:5; 1Co 6:11; Eph 2:2; Tit 3:3; 1Pe 4:3,4

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Context

  • Colossians 3:6

    For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

  • Colossians 3:7

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

  • Colossians 3:8

    But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

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Colossians 3:7 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		En las cuales vosotros también anduvisteis en otro tiempo viviendo en ellas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		parmi lesquels vous aussi vous avez marché autrefois, quand vous viviez dans ces choses.
German
Elberfelder 1871		unter welchen auch ihr einst gewandelt habt, als ihr in diesen Dingen lebtet.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		in quibus et vos ambulastis aliquando, cum viveretis in illis.