Colossians 3:1-13 ▼

1 Therefore, 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 Keep your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on the earth.

3 For you have died, and your life has been safely guarded by the Messiah in God.

4 When the Messiah, who is your life, is revealed, then you, too, will be revealed with him in glory.

5 So put to death your worldly impulses: sexual sin, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).

6 It is because of these things that the wrath of God is coming on those who are disobedient.

7 You used to behave like them as you lived among them.

8 But now you must also get rid of anger, wrath, malice, slander, obscene speech, and all such sins.

9 Do not lie to one another, for you have stripped off the old nature with its practices

10 and 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 In 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 Therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience.

13 Be 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.