3:7

When you lived among them: Paul was writing about the way the Colossians behaved before they became believers.

you: This translates an emphatic pronoun in Greek. Here is another way to translate this pronoun:

you yourselves (Good News Translation)

used to walk in these ways: This is an idiom which means to “behave in these ways.” See the notes on 1:10a and 2:6b.

in these ways: This refers to the list in 3:5b–c.

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