Colossians 3:1-13 ▼

1 If then ye are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting on the right hand of God;

2 think about those things above, and not things upon the earth.

3 For ye are dead, and your life is hidden with Christ in God:

4 when Christ, your life, may appear, then will you also appear with him in glory.

5 Therefore kill your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

6 through which the wrath of God comes.

7 In which you indeed at one time did walk about, when you lived in them:

8 but you also lay aside all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, disgraceful talk out of your mouths:

9 lie not to one another, having laid aside the old man with his habits,

10 and having put on the new man, who is renewed into perfect knowledge according to the image of him who created him:

11 where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bond, free: but Christ is all things, and in all.

12 Therefore, as elect of God, holy and beloved, put on affections of mercy, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;

13 forbearing one another and forgiving one another, if any one may have a quarrel against any one; as Christ also forgave you, so indeed do you likewise: