JMNT(i)
3 for you folks died, and your life has been hidden so that it is now concealed together with the Christ, within the midst of God (or: in union with God).
4 Whenever the Christ, our life [other MSS: your life],
may be brought to light (or: should be manifested),
you folks also will proceed being brought to light (or: will keep on being manifested),
together with Him, within the midst of glory (or: in union with a manifestation which calls forth praise; or: in a good reputation; or: = in His manifest presence). (or: When Christ, the Anointing, can be manifested, then your life – even you yourself, together with Him – will continue being manifested in His manifest presence).
5 Make dead (Put into a state of deadness; Deaden; = Kill),
therefore, the [other MSS: your]
members (body parts; = aspects of your life)
upon the earth (= that pertain to this earthly existence):
prostitution (fornication; sexual immorality),
uncleanness, [
unbridled]
passion ([uncontrolled] feeling or [excessive] emotion),
worthless over-desire (rushing upon bad things; obsessive evil cravings),
and the desire to have more and gain advantage over another (or: selfish, greedy, grasping thoughts and behavior) –
which is idolatry (the worship of forms, shapes, images or figures; or: service to pagan concepts)
6 –
because of which things God's inherent fervor (natural impulse and propensity; internal swelling and teeming passion of desire; or: anger; wrath)
is repeatedly (or: continuously; progressively)
coming [other MSS add: upon the sons of The Disobedience (or: those having the condition of being unpersuaded; or: the stubbornness); note: “the disobedience” could refer to Adam and Eve eating from the tree, and thus, the “sons of the disobedience” could refer to all of mankind] –
7 within which things you folks also at one time (once; formerly)
walked about (= lived your lives),
when you were living within these things.
8 But now, you folks as well, at once put all these things away from [
you, as of clothes put off and laid away]
(or: set off; = renounce or get rid of):
inherent fervor (or: So at this time you yourselves in one stroke set away and get rid of all the [following]: even natural impulse, propensity, internal swelling and teeming desire; or: Yet now, you people at once lay aside all intense anger, rage and wrath),
strong passion (rushing of emotions; outbursts of rage),
worthlessness (poorness of quality; influence of the bad; hateful intentions), [
and]
from out of your mouth: blasphemy (abusive and injurious talk; slander)
[
and]
foul-mouthed abuse (obscenity; ugly words; deformed and shameful language).