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A Radical Command
Commentators emphasize that 'put to death' (mortify) is a radical command. It's not about mere suppression or control, but a decisive and active 'killing' or 'exterminating' of sinful desires and actions. This isn't a call to harm the physical body, but to slay the evil passions that use our bodies and tie us to an earthly mindset, which is the practical outworking of being 'dead with Christ'.
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Colossians
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Albert Barnes
On Colossians 3:5
18th Century
Theologian
Mortify therefore your members. Since you are dead to sin and the world, and are to appear with Christ in the glories of His kingdom, subd…
AT Robertson
On Colossians 3:5
Mortify (νεκρωσατε). First aorist active imperative of νεκροω, late verb, to put to death, to treat as dead. Latin Vulgate mort…
Charles Ellicott
On Colossians 3:5
19th Century
Bishop
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth.—The expression is doubly unique. It is the only passage where “m…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Colossians 3:5
19th Century
Preacher
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, …
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Colossians 3:5
In principle when we became Christians, we died with Christ (cf. 2:20; 3:3). Now we are charged to “put to death” (GK 3739; lit., “to make dead”) t…
John Calvin
On Colossians 3:5
16th Century
Theologian
Mortify therefore. Until now he has been speaking of contempt of the world. He now proceeds further, and enters upon a higher philosophy, …
John Gill
On Colossians 3:5
17th Century
Pastor
Mortify therefore your members
Not your bodies, as the Ethiopic version reads, nor the members of the natural body, …
Matthew Henry
On Colossians 3:5–11
17th Century
Minister
It is our duty to mortify our members that incline to the things of the world. Mortify them, kill them, suppress them, as weeds or vermin that spre…