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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Therefore, put to death what belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Because of these, God's wrath is coming upon the disobedient, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7and you once walked in these things when you were living in them. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But now, put away all the following: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old self with its practices |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10and have put on the new self. You are being renewed in knowledge according to the image of your Creator. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11In Christ there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and dearly loved, put on compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13bearing with one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a grievance against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you are also to forgive. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Above all, put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15And let the peace of Christ, to which you were also called in one body, rule your hearts. And be thankful. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Let the word of Christ dwell richly among you, in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another through psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Husbands, love your wives and don't be bitter toward them. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they won't become discouraged. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Slaves, obey your human masters in everything. Don't work only while being watched, as people-pleasers, but work wholeheartedly, fearing the Lord. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Whatever you do, do it from the heart, as something done for the Lord and not for people, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24knowing that you will receive the reward of an inheritance from the Lord. You serve the Lord Christ. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25For the wrongdoer will be paid back for whatever wrong he has done, and there is no favoritism. |
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