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

But now you must also rid yourselves(A) of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander,(B) and filthy language from your lips.(C) Do not lie to each other,(D) since you have taken off your old self(E) with its practices 10 and have put on the new self,(F) which is being renewed(G) in knowledge in the image of its Creator.(H)

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