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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For you have 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] | 5Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6On account of these the wrath of God is coming. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Do not lie to one another, seeing that 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, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17And whatever you do, in word or 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 to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with 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 provoke your children, lest they become discouraged. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality. |
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