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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Therefore, if you have been raised with the Messiah, keep focusing on the things that are above, where the Messiah is seated at the right hand of God. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Keep your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on the earth. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For you have died, and your life has been safely guarded by the Messiah in God. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4When the Messiah, who is your life, is revealed, then you, too, will be revealed with him in glory. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5So put to death your worldly impulses: sexual sin, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry). |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6It is because of these things that the wrath of God is coming on those who are disobedient. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7You used to behave like them as you lived among them. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But now you must also get rid of anger, wrath, malice, slander, obscene speech, and all such sins. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Do not lie to one another, for you have stripped off the old nature with its practices |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10and have clothed yourselves with the new nature, which is being renewed in full knowledge, consistent with the image of the one who created it. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11In him there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free person. Instead, the Messiah is all and in all. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Be tolerant of one another and forgive each other if anyone has a complaint against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, you also should forgive. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which ties everything together in unity. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Let the peace of the Messiah also rule in your hearts, to which you were called in one body, and be thankful. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Let the word of the Messiah inhabit you richly with wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, and singing to God with thankfulness in your hearts. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17And whatever you do, whether by speech or action, 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 appropriate for those who belong to 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 is pleasing to the Lord. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Fathers, do not make your children resentful. Otherwise, they'll become discouraged. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only while being watched in order to please them, but with a sincere heart, fearing the Lord. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Whatever you do, work at it wholeheartedly as though you were doing it for the Lord and not merely for people. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24You know that it is from the Lord that you will receive the inheritance as a reward. It is the Lord Messiah whom you are serving! |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25For the person who does what is wrong will be paid back for what he has done without favoritism. |
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