| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1So if you have been raised with the Messiah, seek what is above, where the Messiah is, seated at the right hand of God. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Set your minds on what is above, not on what is on the earth. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4When the Messiah, who is your life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Therefore, put to death what belongs to your worldly 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 comes on 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 you must also 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, God's chosen ones, holy and loved, put on heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13accepting one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a complaint against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you must also forgive. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Above all, put on love--the perfect bond of unity. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15And let the peace of the Messiah, to which you were also called in one body, control your hearts. Be thankful. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Let the message about the Messiah dwell richly among you, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, and singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, with gratitude in your hearts to God. |
| 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, be submissive 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 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, in order to please men, but work wholeheartedly, fearing the Lord. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically, as something done for the Lord and not for men, |
| 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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