1599 Geneva Bible: “Kill Your Self-Centered Motives"

Colossians 3:5 (i)Mortify therefore your (ii)members which are on the earth, fornication, uncleanness, the inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness which is idolatry.
Colossians 3:6 For the which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience.

i. Do not let not your dead nature motivate you any more, but let your living nature be motivate you. Now the force of nature is shown by one's motives and actions. Therefore let the affections of the flesh die in you, and let the opposite affections which are spiritual, live. And the author then lists a great long scroll of vices, and their opposite virtues.
ii. The motivations and desires that are in us, are in this place very properly called members, since the reason and the will of man is corrupted, he does use them as the body does its members.


[The above quoted scripture and accompanying paraphrased notes are taken from the 1599 Geneva Bible. A version of this great Bible, with modern spelling, may be purchased from the following link]