Put Your Earthly Nature to Death(Colossians 3:5~11)

Scriptures

⁵Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. ⁷You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. ⁸But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. ⁹Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices ¹⁰and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. ¹¹Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.

Introduction

Colossians is written by Paul. In this paragraph, he taught us how to rid of our earthly nature and update ourselves in Christ.

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New Words

• immorality [ˌɪmə'rælətɪ] 　　
  【Derivative】n. 不道德；无道义；伤风败俗的行为
• moral['mɒr(ə)l] 　　
  adj. 道德的； n. 道德；寓意
• impurity [ɪm'pjʊərɪtɪ] 　　
  n. 杂质；不纯；不洁
• lust [lʌst] 　　
  n. 性欲；强烈的欲望； vi. 贪求，渴望
• greed [griːd] 　　
  n. 贪婪，贪心
• idolatry [aɪ'dɒlətrɪ] 　　
  n. 偶像崇拜；盲目崇拜；邪神崇拜
• wrath [ræθ] 　　
  n. 愤怒；激怒
• rid of sth. 　　
  除去，摆脱
• rage [reɪdʒ] 　　
  n. 愤怒；狂暴，肆虐；情绪激动
• malice ['mælɪs] 　　
  n. 恶意；怨恨；预谋
• slander ['slɑːndə] 　　
  n. 诽谤；中伤；vt. 诽谤；造谣中伤
• filthy ['fɪlθɪ] 　　
  adj. 肮脏的；污秽的；猥亵的
• gentile ['dʒentaɪl] 　　
  n. 非犹太人；异教徒；异邦人
• circumcised 　　
  【Derivative】adj. 受割礼的
  circumcised ['sɜːkəmsaɪz] 　vt.受割礼
• Barbarian [bɑː'beərɪən] 　　
  n. 野蛮人；adj. 野蛮的；未开化的
• Scythian ['sɪθɪən] 　　
  n. 西古提人 （kind of people who are Barbarian）