Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Mortify, х nekroosate (G3499)] - 'make a corpse of.'
Therefore (note, Colossians 3:3) - follow out to its consequence your having once for all died with Christ spiritually at your regeneration, by daily 'deadening your members,' of which, united, "the body of the sins of the flesh" consists (Colossians 2:11): kill the bodily "members," in so far as they are made the fleshly instruments of lust, the deadly foe of your new life (cf. Matthew 5:29-30; Romans 6:19; Romans 7:5; Romans 8:13; Galatians 5:24-25).
Upon the earth - where they find their support (cf. Colossians 3:2, "things on the earth"). See Ephesians 5:3-4.
Inordinate affection, х pathos (G3806)] - 'lustful passion.'
Evil concupiscence - more general (Alford), the disorder of the external senses: 'lustfulness,' lust within (Bengel).
Covetousness, х teen (G3588) pleonexian (G4124)] - marked by the article as forming a genus by itself, distinct from the genus containing the various species just enumerated. A self-idolizing, grasping spirit; worse than х filarguria (G5365)] "the love of money" (1 Timothy 6:10).
Which is, х heetis (G3748)] - inasmuch as it is "idolatry." Compare note, Ephesians 4:19, on its connection with impurity. Self and mammon are deified in the heart instead of God (Matthew 6:24; note, Ephesians 5:5).