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OET (OET-RV) that you reject the former conduct of the old corrupted you, those seductive desires,![]()
OET-LV you_all to_put_away according_to your earlier conduct the old person, which being_corrupted according_to the desires of_ the _seduction,![]()
ULT You are to put aside, what belongs to your former manner of life, the old man being corrupted according to, its deceitful desires,
UST Your teachers taught you to stop living the way that you used to live. Because you desired to do evil things, you deceived yourselves into thinking that those things were good. Living like that was destroying you spiritually.
BSB & MSB to put off your former way of life, [your] old self, which is being corrupted by [its] deceitful desires;
BLB You are to have put off, concerning the former way of life, the old man, which is being corrupted according to its desires of deceit,
AICNT To put off, according to the former way of life, the old man, who is being corrupted according to the desires of deceit,
OEB For you learned with regard to your former way of living that you must cast off your old nature, which, yielding to deluding passions, grows corrupt;
WEBBE & WMBB that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,
NET You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,
LSV concerning the former behavior you are to put off the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,
FBV So get rid of your former lifestyle, that old nature that ruins you through deceptive desires!
TCNT to put off your old self, which belongs to your former way of life and is being corrupted by its deceitful desires,
T4T You were taught {They taught you} that you must put aside [MET] your evil nature; that is, that you must not behave like you formerly did. Your evil desires deceived you, making you want to do evil things and causing you to think that doing that was good for you; and your thinking like that was destroying you spiritually.
LEB that you take off, according to your former way of life, the old man, who is being destroyed according to deceitful desires,
BBE That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;
Moff you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit,
Wymth to put away, in regard to your former mode of life, your original evil nature which is doomed to perish as befits its misleading impulses,
ASV that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
DRA To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error.
YLT ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,
Drby [namely] your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts;
RV that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, which waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
(that ye/you_all put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, which waxeth/waxes/grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;)
SLT For you to put away according to the former mode of life the old man, corrupted according to the eager desires of deceit;
Wbstr That ye put off concerning the former manner of life the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts:
KJB-1769 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
(That ye/you_all put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;)
KJB-1611 That yee put off concerning the former conuersation, the olde man, which is corrupt according to the deceitfull lusts:
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)
Bshps To lay downe, accordyng to the former conuersation, ye olde man, which is corrupt, accordyng to the lustes of error:
(To lay down, according to the former conversation, ye/you_all old man, which is corrupt, according to the lusts of error:)
Gnva That is, that yee cast off, concerning the conuersation in time past, that olde man, which is corrupt through the deceiueable lustes,
(That is, that ye/you_all cast off, concerning the conversation in time past, that old man, which is corrupt through the deceiveable lusts,)
Cvdl So then as concernynge the conuersacion in tyme past laye from you that olde man which marreth himselfe thorow disceauable lustes:
(So then as concerning the conversacion in time past lay from you that old man which marreth himself through disceauable lusts:)
TNT So then as concernynge the coversacion in tyme past laye from you that olde man which is corrupte thorow the deceavable lustes
(So then as concerning the coversacion in time past lay from you that old man which is corrupt through the deceavable lusts)
Wycl Do ye awey bi the elde lyuyng the elde man, that is corrupt bi the desiris of errour;
(Do ye/you_all away by the old living the old man, that is corrupt by the desires of error;)
Luth So leget nun von euch ab nach dem vorigen Wandel den alten Menschen, der durch Lüste in Irrtum sich verderbet.
(So lays now from you ab after to_him previous change(n) the old people, the/of_the through desires(n) in Irrtum itself/yourself/themselves corrupted.)
ClVg deponere vos secundum pristinam conversationem veterem hominem, qui corrumpitur secundum desideria erroris.[fn]
(deponere you(pl) after/second former conversation old man, who/which is_corrupted after/second desires error.)
SR-GNT ἀποθέσθαι ὑμᾶς κατὰ τὴν προτέραν ἀναστροφὴν τὸν παλαιὸν ἄνθρωπον, τὸν φθειρόμενον κατὰ τὰς ἐπιθυμίας τῆς ἀπάτης, ‡
UGNT ἀποθέσθαι ὑμᾶς κατὰ τὴν προτέραν ἀναστροφὴν τὸν παλαιὸν ἄνθρωπον, τὸν φθειρόμενον κατὰ τὰς ἐπιθυμίας τῆς ἀπάτης;
SBL-GNT ἀποθέσθαι ὑμᾶς κατὰ τὴν προτέραν ἀναστροφὴν τὸν παλαιὸν ἄνθρωπον τὸν φθειρόμενον κατὰ τὰς ἐπιθυμίας τῆς ἀπάτης,
RP-GNT ἀποθέσθαι ὑμᾶς, κατὰ τὴν προτέραν ἀναστροφήν, τὸν παλαιὸν ἄνθρωπον, τὸν φθειρόμενον κατὰ τὰς ἐπιθυμίας τῆς ἀπάτης·
TC-GNT ἀποθέσθαι ὑμᾶς κατὰ τὴν προτέραν ἀναστροφὴν τὸν παλαιὸν ἄνθρωπον τὸν φθειρόμενον κατὰ τὰς ἐπιθυμίας τῆς ἀπάτης,