Colossians 3:1-13 ▼

1 If then you are risen with Christ, seek the things, that are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God.

2 let the things above, and not such worldly matters be the object of your thoughts.

3 for you are dead to them, and Christ has secured your life with God.

4 Christ is your life, and when he shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory.

5 Mortify therefore your sensual appetites, fornication, impurity, irregular passions, wicked desires, and that licentiousness practised by idolaters.

6 these are vices which draw down the divine vengeance upon unbelieving nations;

7 among whom you had your conversation, when you followed their practices.

8 but now renounce them all, as well as anger, animosity, malice: let calumny and obscene discourse be banish'd from your lips.

9 let there be no fraud among you, since you have discarded your former habits and practices, and are become new men,

10 improv'd by knowledge into a resemblance of him, who made this change:

11 by which there is now neither Greek, or Jew; circumcised, or uncircumcised; Barbarian, or Scythian; slave, or freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

12 be you therefore adorn'd with a compassionate temper, with benevolence, humility, meekness, patience as becometh saints and chosen favourites of God:

13 bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, when one has any cause of complaint against another: as the Lord forgave you, do you likewise forgive.