SEV Biblia, Chapter 3:9
No mintis los unos a los otros, despojndoos del viejo hombre con sus hechos,
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Colossians 3:9
Verse 9. Lie not one to another] Do not deceive each other; speak the truth in all your dealings; do not say, "My goods are so and so," when you know them to be otherwise; do not undervalue the goods of your neighbour, when your conscience tells you that you are not speaking the truth. It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer; but afterwards he boasteth; i.e. he underrates his neighbour's property till he gets him persuaded to part with it for less than its worth; and when he has thus got it, he boasts what a good bargain he has made. Such a knave speaks not truth with his neighbour. Ye have put off the old man] See the notes on Rom. vi. 6; and particularly on Rom. xiii. 11-14. Ye have received a religion widely different from that ye had before; act according to its principles.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 9. Lie not one to another etc.] Which is another vice of the tongue, and to which mankind are very prone, and ought not to be done to any, and particularly to one another; since the saints are members one of another, and of the same body, which makes the sin the more unnatural; of this vice, (see Gill on Ephesians 4:25), and is another sin that is to be put off, or put away; that is to be abstained from, and not used. The arguments dissuading from this, and the rest, follow, seeing that ye have put off the old man, with his deeds . The Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions read this as an exhortation, as they do the next verse also. Who is meant by the old man, (see Gill on Romans 6:6), and what by putting him off, (see Gill on Ephesians 4:22), and as for his deeds, they are the same with the deceitful lusts there mentioned, and the works of the flesh in ( Galatians 5:19) and with the members of the body of sin in the context, ( Colossians 3:5,8). Some, as Beza, think, that here is an allusion to the rite of baptism in the primitive church; which, as he truly observes, was performed not by aspersion, but immersion; and which required a putting off, and a putting on of clothes, and when the baptized persons professed to renounce the sins of the flesh, and their former conversation, and to live a new life.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 5-11 - It is our duty to mortify our members which incline to the things of the world. Mortify them, kill them, suppress them, as weeds or vermi which spread and destroy all about them. Continual opposition must be made to all corrupt workings, and no provision made for carna indulgences. Occasions of sin must be avoided: the lusts of the flesh and the love of the world; and covetousness, which is idolatry; love of present good, and of outward enjoyments. It is necessary to mortif sins, because if we do not kill them, they will kill us. The gospe changes the higher as well as the lower powers of the soul, an supports the rule of right reason and conscience, over appetite an passion. There is now no difference from country, or conditions an circumstances of life. It is the duty of every one to be holy, becaus Christ is a Christian's All, his only Lord and Saviour, and all his hope and happiness.
Greek Textus Receptus
μη 3361 ψευδεσθε 5574 5732 εις 1519 αλληλους 240 απεκδυσαμενοι 554 5666 τον 3588 παλαιον 3820 ανθρωπον 444 συν 4862 ταις 3588 πραξεσιν 4234 αυτου 846
Vincent's NT Word Studies
9. Seeing that ye have put off (apekdusamenoi). See on ch. ii. 15. The old man. See on Rom. vi. 6.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
3:9 {Lie not to another} (me yeudesqe eis allelous). Lying (yeudos) could have been included in the preceding list where it belongs in reality. But it is put more pointedly thus in the prohibition (me and the present middle imperative). It means either "stop lying" or "do not have the habit of lying." {Seeing that ye have put off} (apekdusamenoi). First aorist middle participle (causal sense of the circumstantial participle) of the double compound verb apekduomai, for which see #2:15. The apo has the perfective sense (wholly), "having stripped clean off." The same metaphor as apoqesqe in verse #8. {The old man} (ton palaion anqrwpon). Here Paul brings in another metaphor (mixes his metaphors as he often does), that of the old life of Sin regarded as "the ancient man" of Sin already crucified (#Ro 6:6) and dropped now once and for all as a mode of life (aorist tense). See same figure in #Eph 4:22. palaios is ancient in contrast with neos (young, new) as in #Mt 9:17 or kainos (fresh, unused) as in #Mt 13:52. {With his doings} (sun tais praxesin autou). Practice must square with profession.
