Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Faites donc mourir les membres qui sont sur la terre, l'impudicité, l'impureté, les passions, les mauvais désirs, et la cupidité, qui est une idolâtrie.
KJV
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Polycarp
Epistula ad Philippenses
νετε ϝος αβ ομνι μαλο. θυι αυτεμ νον ποτεστ σε ιν ηις γυβερναρε, #3υομοδο αλιι προνυντιατ Eph. 5, 5; Col. 3, 5 ηοε? σι #3υις νον σε αβστινυεριτ αβ αϝαριτια, αβ Jer. 5, 4 ιδολολατρια ξοιν#3υιναβιτυρ ετ ταμ#3υαμ ιντερ γεντες I Cor. 6, 2 ιυδιξαβιτυρ, #3υι ιγνοραντ ιυδιξιυμ δομινι. α…
Salvian of Marseille
Against Greed in four books Book One
the fruit of mercy and humanity, unless they extend their greed, that is, the servitude of idolatry. Colossians 3:5. Perhaps you look around and wonder who among your people I am referring to. You do not need a long search to find them. I say, almost all, almost all are as I spea…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
leasure, about which intemperance is concerned, are always to be thwarted and uprooted, according to Col. 3:5, "Mortify . . . your members upon the earth, which are . . . concupiscence" [*Vulg.: 'your members which are upon the earth, fornication . . . concupiscence'], etc. There…
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