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歌罗西书 3:9

不要彼此說謊,因為你們已經脫去了舊人和舊人的行為,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commandments;   Falsehood;   Holiness;   Regeneration;   Righteousness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Falsehood;   Life;   Old Life, of Sin;   Truth-Falsehood;   The Topic Concordance - Calling;   Creation;   Gentiles/heathen;   Israel/jews;   Knowledge;   Lying/lies;   Man;   Newness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Lying;   Self-Denial;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Dress;   Ethics;   Flesh;   Lie;   Sanctification;   Virgin;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Baptize, Baptism;   Image of God;   Lie, Lying;   New Self;   Sanctification;   Union with Christ;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Lying;   Malice;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ephesians, Epistle to;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Colosse;   Games;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Colossians;   Paul;   Second Coming, the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ethics;   Lie, Lying;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Baptism;   Children of God;   Clothes;   Colossians, Epistle to the;   Discipline;   Fruit;   Honest;   Lying ;   Regeneration;   Sacraments;   Sanctification;   Turning;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Old Man;   4 Old Ancient;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Anthropology;   Colossians, Epistle to the;   Deed;   Ephesians, Epistle to the;   Jude, the Epistle of;   Lie;   Man, Natural;   Man, New;   Old Man;   Salvation;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Saul of Tarsus;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for July 9;   Every Day Light - Devotion for May 13;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
不 要 彼 此 说 谎 ; 因 你 们 已 经 脱 去 旧 人 和 旧 人 的 行 为 ,

Contextual Overview

8 But now also put these things out of your life: anger, bad temper, doing or saying things to hurt others, and using evil words when you talk. 9 Do not lie to each other. You have left your old sinful life and the things you did before. 10 You have begun to live the new life, in which you are being made new and are becoming like the One who made you. This new life brings you the true knowledge of God. 11 In the new life there is no difference between Greeks and Jews, those who are circumcised and those who are not circumcised, or people who are foreigners, or Scythians. There is no difference between slaves and free people. But Christ is in all believers, and Christ is all that is important.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Lie: Leviticus 19:11, Isaiah 63:8, Jeremiah 9:3-5, Zephaniah 3:13, Zechariah 8:16, John 8:44, Ephesians 4:25, 1 Timothy 1:10, Titus 1:12, Titus 1:13, Revelation 21:8, Revelation 21:27, Revelation 22:15

ye: Colossians 3:8, Romans 6:6, Ephesians 4:22

Reciprocal: Genesis 18:15 - denied Genesis 20:2 - said Genesis 26:7 - She is my sister Genesis 27:24 - I am Leviticus 6:2 - lie Judges 16:7 - If they bind 1 Samuel 21:2 - The king Psalms 15:2 - speaketh Psalms 34:13 - speaking Proverbs 13:5 - righteous Proverbs 24:28 - deceive Matthew 5:37 - cometh Romans 7:22 - inward Romans 13:12 - cast 1 Corinthians 15:46 - that which is natural Ephesians 4:29 - no Colossians 2:11 - in putting James 3:6 - a world 1 Peter 3:4 - the hidden

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
The man said, "You gave this woman to me and she gave me fruit from the tree, so I ate it."
Genesis 3:13
Then the Lord God said to the woman, "How could you have done such a thing?" She answered, "The snake tricked me, so I ate the fruit."
Genesis 3:17
Then God said to the man, "You listened to what your wife said, and you ate fruit from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat. "So I will put a curse on the ground, and you will have to work very hard for your food. In pain you will eat its food all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:19
You will sweat and work hard for your food. Later you will return to the ground, because you were taken from it. You are dust, and when you die, you will return to the dust."
Genesis 3:20
The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.
Genesis 3:21
The Lord God made clothes from animal skins for the man and his wife and dressed them.
Genesis 4:9
Later, the Lord said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" Cain answered, "I don't know. Is it my job to take care of my brother?"
Genesis 11:5
The Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had built.
Genesis 16:8
The angel said, "Hagar, Sarai's slave girl, where have you come from? Where are you going?" Hagar answered, "I am running away from my mistress Sarai."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Lie not one to another.... Which is another vice of the tongue, and to which mankind are very prone, and ought not to be done to any, and particularly to one another; since the saints are members one of another, and of the same body, which makes the sin the more unnatural; of this vice, :-, and is another sin that is to be put off, or put away; that is to be abstained from, and not used. The arguments dissuading from this, and the rest, follow,

seeing that ye have put off the old man, with his deeds. The Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions read this as an exhortation, as they do the next verse also. Who is meant by the old man,

:-, and what by putting him off,

:-, and as for "his deeds", they are the same with the deceitful lusts there mentioned, and the works of the flesh in Galatians 5:19 and with the members of the body of sin in the context, Colossians 3:5. Some, as Beza, think, that here is an allusion to the rite of baptism in the primitive church; which, as he truly observes, was performed not by aspersion, but immersion; and which required a putting off, and a putting on of clothes, and when the baptized persons professed to renounce the sins of the flesh, and their former conversation, and to live a new life.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lie not one to another - Notes, Ephesians 4:25.

Seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds - Your former corrupt and evil nature; Notes, Ephesians 4:22. The reason for putting away lying, stated in Ephesians 4:25, is, that we “are members one of another” - or are brethren. The reason assigned here is, that we have put off the old man with his deeds. The sense is, that lying is one of the fruits of sin. It is that which the corrupt nature of man naturally produces; and when that is put off, then all that that nature produces should be also put off with it. The vice of lying is a universal fruit of sin, and seems to exist everywhere where the gospel does not prevail; compare the notes at Titus 1:12. There is, perhaps, no single form of sin that reigns so universally in the pagan world.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 9. Lie not one to another — Do not deceive each other; speak the truth in all your dealings; do not say, "My goods are so and so," when you know them to be otherwise; do not undervalue the goods of your neighbour, when your conscience tells you that you are not speaking the truth. It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer; but afterwards he boasteth; i.e. he underrates his neighbour's property till he gets him persuaded to part with it for less than its worth; and when he has thus got it, he boasts what a good bargain he has made. Such a knave speaks not truth with his neighbour.

Ye have put off the old manRomans 6:6; Romans 6:6; and particularly on Romans 13:11-14. Ye have received a religion widely different from that ye had before; act according to its principles.


 
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