Colossians 3:6

Amplified Bible

Because of these [sinful] things the [divine] wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience [those who fail to listen and who routinely and obstinately disregard God's precepts],

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Because of these, God’s wrath is coming upon the disobedient,

King James Version (1611)
For which things sake, the wrath of God commeth on the children of disobedience,

King James Version
For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

English Standard Version
On account of these the wrath of God is coming.

New American Standard Bible
For it is because of these things that the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience,

New Century Version
These things make God angry.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience,

Legacy Standard Bible
On account of these things, the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience,

Berean Standard Bible
Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

Contemporary English Version
God is angry with people who disobey him by doing these things.

Complete Jewish Bible
for it is because of these things that God's anger is coming on those who disobey him.

Darby Translation
On account of which things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Easy-to-Read Version
God will show his anger against those who don't obey him, because they do these evil things.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For the which things sake ye wrath of God commeth on the children of disobedience.

George Lamsa Translation
And it is because of these things that the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

Good News Translation
Because of such things God's anger will come upon those who do not obey him.

Lexham English Bible
because of which the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience,

Literal Translation
on account of which things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience,

American Standard Version
for which things' sake cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience:

Bible in Basic English
Because of which the wrath of God comes on those who go against his orders;

Hebrew Names Version
for which things' sake the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience.

International Standard Version
It is because of these things that the wrath of God is coming on those who are disobedient.on the sons of disobedience">[fn]Romans 1:18; Ephesians 2:2; 5:6; Revelation 22:15;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
For on account of these cometh the anger of Aloha upon the sons of disobedience. [fn]

Murdock Translation
For on account of these [fn] , the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For which thynges sake, the wrath of God commeth on the children of disobedience,

English Revised Version
for which things' sake cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience;

World English Bible
for which things' sake the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For which things the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

Weymouth's New Testament
It is on account of these very sins that God's anger is coming,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
for whiche thingis the wraththe of God cam on the sones of vnbileue;

Update Bible Version
for which things' sake the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience:

Webster's Bible Translation
For which things the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

New English Translation
Because of these things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

New King James Version
Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience,

New Living Translation
Because of these sins, the anger of God is coming.

New Life Bible
It is because of these sins that the anger of God comes down on those who do not obey Him.

New Revised Standard
On account of these the wrath of God is coming on those who are disobedient.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
On account of which things cometh the anger of God, -

Douay-Rheims Bible
For which things the wrath of God cometh upon the children of unbelief.

Revised Standard Version
On account of these the wrath of God is coming.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
for which thynges sakes the wrath of God cometh on the chyldren of vnbeleve.

Young's Literal Translation
because of which things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for which thinges sakes the wrath of God commeth vpon the children of vnbeleue:

Mace New Testament (1729)
these are vices which draw down the divine vengeance upon unbelieving nations;

Simplified Cowboy Version
These are the things God will destroy. Don't be one who is destroyed along with them. Make no mistake, God is coming and the things of this world will be destroyed along with all who partake in it.

Contextual Overview

⁵So put to death and deprive of power the evil longings of your earthly body [with its sensual, self-centered instincts] immorality, impurity, sinful passion, evil desire, and greed, which is [a kind of] idolatry [because it replaces your devotion to God]. ⁶Because of these [sinful] things the [divine] wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience [those who fail to listen and who routinely and obstinately disregard God's precepts],⁷and in these [sinful things] you also once walked, when you were habitually living in them [without the knowledge of Christ].

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

which: Romans 1:18, Ephesians 5:6, Revelation 22:15

children: Isaiah 57:4, Ezekiel 16:45, Ezekiel 16:46, Ephesians 2:2, Ephesians 2:3, 1 Peter 1:14, 2 Peter 2:14,*Gr.

Reciprocal: Genesis 12:13 - Say Romans 4:15 - Because Romans 8:13 - ye live Galatians 5:21 - that they Hebrews 4:11 - unbelief Hebrews 13:4 - and the bed Revelation 10:9 - Take

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more crafty (subtle, skilled in deceit) than any living creature of the field which the LORD God had made. And the serpent (Satan) said to the woman, "Can it really be that God has said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden'?"

Genesis 3:2
And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,

Genesis 3:12
And the man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me—she gave me [fruit] from the tree, and I ate it."

Genesis 3:14
The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all the cattle, And more than any animal of the field; On your belly you shall go, And dust you shall eat All the days of your life.

Genesis 3:15
"And I will put enmity (open hostility) Between you and the woman, And between your seed (offspring) and her Seed; He shall [fatally] bruise your head, And you shall [only] bruise His heel."

Genesis 3:17
Then to Adam the LORD God said, "Because you have listened [attentively] to the voice of your wife, and have eaten [fruit] from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it'; The ground is [now] under a curse because of you; In sorrow and toil you shall eat [the fruit] of it All the days of your life.

Genesis 3:19
"By the sweat of your face You will eat bread Until you return to the ground, For from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return."

Genesis 6:2
that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful and desirable; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose and desired.

Genesis 39:7
Then after a time his master's wife looked at Joseph with desire, and she said, "Lie with me."

Joshua 7:21
when I saw among the spoils [in Jericho] a beautiful robe from Shinar (southern Babylon) and two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I wanted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For which things' sake,.... Those sins above mentioned, Colossians 3:5:

the wrath of God; the effects of it in temporal judgments, and eternal ruin and destruction, the wrath to come, which all are deserving of, and there is only deliverance from by Christ:

cometh upon the children of disobedience: who are disobedient both to the law of God, and Gospel of Christ: who are unbelievers in him, are rebellious and gainsaying, reject his calls, the persuasions of his ministers, set at nought his counsel, and will have none of his reproof. There have been already instances of God's displeasure at sin, his indignation against it, and his judgments on account of it: his wrath is revealed from heaven, and it will come down from thence on disobedient and rebellious sinners, and that suddenly, and with great power, like a mighty torrent, that there will be no standing before it. This is a reason why such who have life in Christ should mortify, repress, and abstain from the above sins; for though this regards sinners, and ungodly persons, yet the effects of God's wrath on such show how much such sins are displeasing to him, and detested by him, and therefore to be avoided by the saints.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For which things’ sake ... - See the notes at Ephesians 5:6, where the same expression occurs.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 6. The wrath of God cometh — God is angry with such persons, and he inflicts on them the punishment which they deserve.