Colossians 3:6
For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
KJV
δι’ ἃ ἔρχεται ἡ ὀργὴ τοῦ θεοῦ.
Greek NT
propter quæ venit ira Dei super filios incredulitatis :
Vulgate
for which things’ sake cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience:
ASV
For which things the wrath of God cometh upon the children of unbelief.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
6 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
διά
dia
preposition · 633×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
ἔρχομαι
erchomai
verb · 627×
ὀργή
orge
noun · 36×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
trivial
SBLGNT: ἐπὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς τῆς ἀπειθείας | NA/RP: ἐπὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς τῆς ἀπειθείας
- ἐπὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς τῆς ἀπειθείας — SBLGNT
- ἐπὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς τῆς ἀπειθείας — Nestle-Aland 27, Robinson-Pierpont
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Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§1852There are a great many kinds of sins. Scripture provides several lists of them. the Letter to the Galatians contrasts the works of the flesh with the fruit of the Spirit: "Now the works of the flesh are plain: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. …
2. That one of you should have his father's wife. Wherefore said he not, That he should abuse his father's wife? The extreme foulness of the deed caused him to shrink. He hurries by it accordingly, with a sort of scrupulousness as though it had been explicitly mentioned before. And hereby again he aggravates the charge, implying that such things are ventured on among them as ev…
Cross-references
- 1Pet 1:14 — As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
- Eph 2:2 — Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
- Eph 5:6 — Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
- Eph 5:6 — Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
- Ezek 16:45 — Thou art thy mother’s daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your
- Gal 5:21 — Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
- Heb 4:11 — Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
- Rev 22:15 — For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
- Rom 1:18 — For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
- Rom 1:18 — For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
- Rom 4:15 — Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.