Charles Spurgeon Commentary Colossians 2:5

"For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ." — Colossians 2:5 (ASV)

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: (Colossians 3:5).

Since you are dead, let all the lusts of the flesh be put to death.

Kill those.

They were once a part of you. Your nature lusted this way.

Mortify them.

Do not merely restrain them and try to keep them under. These things you are to have nothing to do with.

He never forgot them; and it was his joy when he found them standing fast in Christ, and his sorrow and his horror when they turned away to follow anyone else.