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1 If however you have risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, enthroned at God's right hand. 2 Give your minds to the things that are above, not to the things that are on the earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ appears--He is our true Life--then you also will appear with Him in glory. 5 Therefore put to death your earthward inclinations--fornication, impurity, sensual passion, unholy desire, and all greed, for that is a form of idolatry. 6 It is on account of these very sins that God's anger is coming, 7 and you also were once addicted to them, while you were living under their power. 8 But now you must rid yourselves of every kind of sin--angry and passionate outbreaks, ill-will, evil speaking, foul-mouthed abuse--so that these may never soil your lips. 9 Do not speak falsehoods to one another, for you have stripped off the old self with its doings, Colossians 3:1-9, Weymouth New Testament. Public domain.
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