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1 If, then, you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where the Christ sits at the right hand of God; 2 mind the things that are above, not the things that are on the earth: 3 for you are dead, and your life is hid with the Christ in God. 4 When the Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory. 5 Put to death, therefore, your members that are on the earth, lewdness, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; 6 on account of these things the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience, 7 in which things you also formerly walked when you lived in them. 8 But now do you also put away all these—anger, wrath, malice, reviling, obscene language from your mouth. 9 Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds, 10 and have put on the new man, which is renewed for knowledge, according to the image of him that created him; 11 in which new creation there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all and in all. 12 Put on, therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, a merciful disposition, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering: 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if any one have a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so also do you: Colossians 3:1-13, Anderson New Testament. Public domain.
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