Don’t lie to each other, for you have stripped off your old sinful nature and all its wicked deeds.
Parallel translations
- WEB Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
- KJV Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
- BSB Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices,
- NKJV Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds,
- NASB Do not lie to one another, since you stripped off the old self with its evil practices,
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Quick answer
They must not lie to one another, having taken off the old self. Truthfulness flows from a changed nature.
Overview
Paul forbids lying 'seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings.' Like removing dirty clothing, believers have decisively laid aside their old, sinful self in Christ. Honest speech is the natural expression of that new reality.
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Cross-references · 15
- Eph 4:22that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
- Eph 4:25Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
- Lev 19:11“‘You shall not steal. “‘You shall not lie. “‘You shall not deceive one another.
- Rom 6:6knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
- John 8:44You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.
- Rev 22:15Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
- Zeph 3:13The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.”
- Rev 21:27There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
- Titus 1:12–13One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”
- Jer 9:3–5“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood; and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.
- 1 Tim 1:10for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;
- Rev 21:8But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
- Col 3:8but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
- Isa 63:8For he said, “Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely;” so he became their Savior.
- Zech 8:16These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,
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