Colossians 3:7
“In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.”
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What Does Colossians 3:7 Mean?
Paul reminds the Colossians of their own past with gentle honesty. In the which ye also walked some time -- these were not other people's sins but their former way of life, the path they too once trod.
There was a time when ye lived in them, when such desires were the very air they breathed and the pattern they followed. Paul does not say this to shame them but to mark the contrast: that was then, before Christ. The grace that delivered them makes the old life genuinely past. Remembering where one has come from guards against both pride toward others and complacency about sin. The Colossians are to see that the vices of verse 5 belong to a life they have left behind. Having been rescued from that walk, they are now to put off entirely what once defined them.