Colossians 3:9 (WEB)

Passage

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

Nearby Context

Colossians 3:7 You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

Colossians 3:8 but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

Colossians 3:9 Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

Colossians 3:10 and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

Colossians 3:11 where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "another", "seeing", and "doings". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "another" and "seeing", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 8's "but now you also put them all..." into verse 10's "and have put on the new man...", so "another" and "seeing" belong inside that flow. In Colossians context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "another" and "seeing" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.