- 1. If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
- 2. Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
- 3. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
- 4. When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
- 5. Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
- 6. for which things' sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
- 7. You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;
- 8. but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
- 9. Don't lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
- 10. and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
- 11. where there can't be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.
- 12. Put on therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
- 13. bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
- 14. Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
- 15. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.
- 16. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
- 17. Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.
- 18. Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
- 19. Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.
- 20. Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
- 21. Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.
- 22. Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
- 23. And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,
- 24. knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
- 25. But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.
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