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Truthfulness Is Who You Are Now
Commentators explain that the command to stop lying is rooted in a Christian's new identity. The verse's reason is that believers have 'put off the old man.' Lying is a characteristic 'deed' of that old, sinful nature. Therefore, honesty isn't just a rule to follow but a natural expression of the new person God has made you in Christ.
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Colossians
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Albert Barnes
On Colossians 3:9
18th Century
Theologian
Lie not one to another. (See Barnes on Ephesians 4:25).
Seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds. This refer…
AT Robertson
On Colossians 3:9
Lie not to another (μη ψευδεσθε εις αλληλους). Lying (ψευδος) could have been included in the preceding list where it belongs in r…
Charles Ellicott
On Colossians 3:9
19th Century
Bishop
Lie not one to another.—Compare Ephesians 4:25, and note the characteristic insertion there of a clause to which there is…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Colossians 3:9
19th Century
Preacher
Lie not one to another,
In Paul's day, lying was often considered a virtue unless the liar was discovered; in that case, it was dee…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Colossians 3:9–10
(9a) The sin of falsehood may be singled out because in it more frequently than in anything else we manifest ill-will toward our fellow human being…
John Calvin
On Colossians 3:9
16th Century
Theologian
Lie not. When he forbids lying, he condemns every sort of cunning and all base artifices of deception. For I do not understand th…
John Gill
On Colossians 3:9
17th Century
Pastor
Lie not one to another
&c.] Which is another vice of the tongue, and to which mankind are very prone, and ought not …
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…