Col 3:5-6 | TNotes | STEP | 3:5 So put to death: Our death to this life (3:3 ) must be made real in the way that we live day by day. • a greedy person is an idolater: Greedy people pursue the objects of their greed—money, sex, power, possessions—in the place of God, with the hope of finding satisfaction in those things.

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‏ Colossians 3:5-6

3:5 ^a So put to death: Our death to this life (3:3 ^b) must be made real in the way that we live day by day.

• a greedy person is an idolater: Greedy people pursue the objects of their greed—money, sex, power, possessions—in the place of God, with the hope of finding satisfaction in those things.
3:6 ^c coming: Some manuscripts read coming on all who disobey him. In the Greek text, these words occur verbatim in Eph 5:6 ^d, so it is possible that an early scribe added them here, either intentionally or accidentally.