Colossians 3:5 (YLT)

Passage

Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry--

Nearby Context

Colossians 3:3 for ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the Christ in God;

Colossians 3:4 when the Christ--our life--may be manifested, then also we with him shall be manifested in glory.

Colossians 3:5 Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry--

Colossians 3:6 because of which things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

Colossians 3:7 in which also ye--ye did walk once, when ye lived in them;

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "death", "members", "upon", "earth--whoredom", "uncleanness", "passion", "evil", and "desire". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "death" and "members", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 4's "when the Christ--our life--may be manifested then..." into verse 6's "because of which things cometh the anger...", so "death" and "members" 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 "death" and "members" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.