Colossians 3:5
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

Young's Literal Translation
Put to death, then, your members that [are] upon the earth—whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry—

King James Bible
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Greek
Put to death,
Νεκρώσατε (Nekrōsate)
Verb - Aorist Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 3499: Lit. and met: I put to death, make as dead; I render weak, impotent. From nekros; to deaden, i.e. to subdue.

therefore,
οὖν (oun)
Conjunction
Strong's 3767: Therefore, then. Apparently a primary word; certainly, or accordingly.

the
τὰ (ta)
Article - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

components
μέλη (melē)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3196: A bodily organ, limb, member. Of uncertain affinity; a limb or part of the body.

of your
τὰ (ta)
Article - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

earthly nature:
γῆς (gēs)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 1093: Contracted from a primary word; soil; by extension a region, or the solid part or the whole of the terrene globe.

sexual immorality,
πορνείαν (porneian)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 4202: Fornication, whoredom; met: idolatry. From porneuo; harlotry; figuratively, idolatry.

impurity,
ἀκαθαρσίαν (akatharsian)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 167: Uncleanness, impurity. From akathartos; impurity, physically or morally.

lust,
πάθος (pathos)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3806: Suffering, emotion, depraved passion, lust. From the alternate of pascho; properly, suffering, i.e. a passion.

evil
κακήν (kakēn)
Adjective - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2556: Bad, evil, in the widest sense. Apparently a primary word; worthless, i.e. depraved, or injurious.

desires,
ἐπιθυμίαν (epithymian)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1939: Desire, eagerness for, inordinate desire, lust. From epithumeo; a longing.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

greed,
πλεονεξίαν (pleonexian)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 4124: Covetousness, avarice, aggression, desire for advantage. From pleonektes; avarice, i.e. fraudulency, extortion.

which
ἥτις (hētis)
Personal / Relative Pronoun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3748: Whosoever, whichsoever, whatsoever.

is
ἐστὶν (estin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

idolatry.
εἰδωλολατρία (eidōlolatria)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1495: Service (worship) of an image (an idol). From eidolon and latreia; image-worship.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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