Colossians 3:9-11
Contemporary English Version
9 (A) And stop lying to each other. You have given up your old way of life with its habits.
10 (B) Each of you is now a new person. You are becoming more and more like your Creator, and you will understand him better. 11 It doesn't matter if you are a Greek or a Jew, or if you are circumcised or not. You may even be a barbarian or a Scythian,[a] and you may be a slave or a free person. Yet Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us.
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- 3.11 a barbarian or a Scythian: Barbarians were people who could not speak Greek and would be in the lower class of society. Scythians were people who were known for their cruelty.
Colossians 3:9-11
New International Version
9 Do not lie to each other,(A) since you have taken off your old self(B) with its practices 10 and have put on the new self,(C) which is being renewed(D) in knowledge in the image of its Creator.(E) 11 Here there is no Gentile or Jew,(F) circumcised or uncircumcised,(G) barbarian, Scythian, slave or free,(H) but Christ is all,(I) and is in all.
Colossians 3:9-11
King James Version
9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
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Colossians 3:9-11
New King James Version
9 Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, 10 and have put on the new man who (A)is renewed in knowledge (B)according to the image of Him who (C)created him, 11 where there is neither (D)Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, (E)but Christ is all and in all.
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Colossians 3:9-11
English Standard Version
9 (A)Do not lie to one another, seeing that (B)you have put off (C)the old self[a] with its practices 10 and (D)have put on (E)the new self, (F)which is being renewed in knowledge (G)after the image of (H)its creator. 11 (I)Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave,[b] free; but Christ is (J)all, and in all.
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- Colossians 3:9 Greek man; also as supplied in verse 10
- Colossians 3:11 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface; likewise for Bondservants in verse 22
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