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colossians 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.
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.
