Colossians 3:1-14
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3Therefore, if you have been araised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, bseated at the right hand of God. 21,aSet your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. 3For you adied and your life has been hidden with Christ in God. 4When Christ, awho is our life, is manifested, bthen you also will be manifested with Him in glory.
5aTherefore, 1consider bthe members of your earthly body as dead to csexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry. 6On account of these things, athe wrath of God is coming 1upon the sons of disobedience, 7and ain them you also once walked, when you were living 1in them. 8But now you also, alay them all aside: bwrath, anger, malice, slander, and cabusive speech from your mouth. 91,aDo not lie to one another, since you bput off the old man with its evil practices, 10and have aput on the new man who is being 1,brenewed to a full knowledge caccording to the image of the One who dcreated him— 11a renewal in which athere is no distinction between Greek and Jew, bcircumcised and uncircumcised, 1,cbarbarian, Scythian, dslave, and freeman, but eChrist is all and in all.
12So, as the aelect of God, holy and beloved, bput on a cheart of compassion, kindness, dhumility, gentleness, and 1,epatience; 13abearing with one another, and bgraciously forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone, cjust as the Lord graciously forgave you, so also should you. 14Above all these things put on love, which is 1,athe perfect bond of bunity.