Colossians 3:1-9 ▼

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