in which also you once lived, when you used to live in them.[a] 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[b] have taken off the old man together with his deeds,

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 3:7 Or “among them” (the pronoun may refer either to people or to sins)
  2. Colossians 3:9 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“have taken off”) which is understood as causal