Colossians 3
1 If therefore ye were raised with the Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.
If however you have risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, enthroned at God's right hand.
2 Think on the things above, not the things on the earth.
Give your minds to the things that are above, not to the things that are on the earth.
3 For ye died, and your life has been hidden with the Christ in God.
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
4 When the Christ, our life, is made known, then ye also will be made known with him in glory.
When Christ appears--He is our true Life--then you also will appear with Him in glory.
5 Put to death therefore your body-parts on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.
Therefore put to death your earthward inclinations--fornication, impurity, sensual passion, unholy desire, and all greed, for that is a form of idolatry.
6 Because of which the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience,
It is on account of these very sins that God's anger is coming,
7 in which ye also once walked when ye lived in them.
and you also were once addicted to them, while you were living under their power.
8 But now ye also, put off all these things: anger, wrath, wickedness, reviling, filthy speaking out of your mouth.
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 lie to each other, having stripped off the old man with his practices,
Do not speak falsehoods to one another, for you have stripped off the old self with its doings,
10 and having put on the new man, being renewed in knowledge according to an image of him who created him,
and have clothed yourselves with the new self which is being remoulded into full knowledge so as to become like Him who created it.
11 where there is no Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman, but the all and in all, Christ.
In that new creation there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free man, but Christ is everything and is in all of us.
12 Put on therefore, as chosen men of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering,
Clothe yourselves therefore, as God's own people holy and dearly loved, with tender-heartedness, kindness, lowliness of mind, meekness, long-suffering;
13 forbearing each other, and forgiving yourselves, if any man has a complaint against any, just as also the Christ forgave you, so also ye,
bearing with one another and readily forgiving each other, if any one has a grievance against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, you also must forgive.
14 and above all these things, love, which is the bond of perfection.
And over all these put on love, which is the perfect bond of union;
15 And let the peace of God umpire in your hearts, for which also ye were called in one body, and become thankful.
and let the peace which Christ gives settle all questionings in your hearts, to which peace indeed you were called as belonging to His one Body; and be thankful.
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing by grace in your hearts to God.
Let the teaching concerning Christ remain as a rich treasure in your hearts. In all wisdom teach and admonish one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, and sing with grace in your hearts to God.
17 And all things, anything whatever ye may do in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, expressing thanks to the God and Father through him.
And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, and let it be through Him that you give thanks to God the Father.
18 Wives, be ye submissive to your own husbands as is proper in the Lord.
Married women, be submissive to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
19 Husbands, love the wives and do not be made bitter against them.
Married men, be affectionate to your wives, and do not treat them harshly.
20 Children, obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.
Children be obedient to your parents in everything; for that is right for Christians.
21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they may not be discouraged.
Fathers, do not fret and harass your children, or you may make them sullen and morose.
22 Bondmen, obey in all things those masters according to flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God.
Slaves, be obedient in everything to your earthly masters; not in acts of eye service, as aiming only to please men, but with simplicity of purpose, because you fear the Lord.
23 And all things, anything whatever ye may do, work from soul as to the Lord and not to men,
Whatever you are doing, let your hearts be in your work, as a thing done for the Lord and not for men.
24 knowing that from the Lord ye will receive the reward of the inheritance, for ye serve the Lord Christ.
For you know that it is from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. Christ is the Master whose bondservants you are.
25 And he who does wrong will be recompensed what he did wrong, and there is no partiality.
The man who perpetrates a wrong will find the wrong repaid to him; and with God there are no merely earthly distinctions.
