Colossians 3:1-13 ▼

1 IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek the things which are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.

2 Fix your minds on things above, not on things on the earth.

3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

4 When Christ shall appear, who is our life, then shall you also with him be manifested in glory.

5 Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, the vile passion, evil concupiscence, and insatiable desire, which is idolatry:

6 for which things the wrath of God cometh upon the children of disobedience;

7 in which ye also walked formerly when ye lived among them:

8 but now ye have put away all these things, anger, asperity, malice, scandal, obscenity, out of your mouth.

9 Lie not one to another, seeing ye have put off the old man with his practices;

10 and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge, after the image of him that created him.

11 Where there is no difference whether a man be Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian or Scythian, slave or freeman: but Christ is all and in all.

12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering;

13 forbearing one another, and freely forgiving one another, if any man hath a complaint against another: even as Christ hath freely forgiven you, so also do ye.