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