But now you also lay aside all these things: anger, rage, wickedness, slander, abusive language from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, because you[a] have taken off the old man together with his deeds, 10 and have put on the new man that is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one who created him,

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 3:9 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“have taken off”) which is understood as causal