Colossians 3
1 If however you have risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, enthroned at God's right hand.
If, then, you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where the Christ sits at the right hand of God;
2 Give your minds to the things that are above, not to the things that are on the earth.
mind the things that are above, not the things that are on the earth:
3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
for you are dead, and your life is hid with the Christ in God.
4 When Christ appears--He is our true Life--then you also will appear with Him in glory.
When the Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also 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.
Put to death, therefore, your members that are on the earth, lewdness, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
6 It is on account of these very sins that God's anger is coming,
on account of these things the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience,
7 and you also were once addicted to them, while you were living under their power.
in which things you also formerly walked when you lived in them.
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.
But now do you also put away all these―anger, wrath, malice, reviling, obscene language from your mouth.
9 Do not speak falsehoods to one another, for you have stripped off the old self with its doings,
Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds,
10 and have clothed yourselves with the new self which is being remoulded into full knowledge so as to become like Him who created it.
and have put on the new man, which is renewed for knowledge, according to the image of him that created him;
11 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.
in which new creation there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all and in all.
12 Clothe yourselves therefore, as God's own people holy and dearly loved, with tender-heartedness, kindness, lowliness of mind, meekness, long-suffering;
Put on, therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, a merciful disposition, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering:
13 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.
bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if any one have a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so also do you:
14 And over all these put on love, which is the perfect bond of union;
and over all these put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.
15 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.
And let the peace of God, to which you are called in one body, rule in your hearts, and be thankful.
16 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.
Let the word of the Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, by teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with gratitude in your hearts to the Lord.
17 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.
And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
18 Married women, be submissive to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it is becoming in the Lord.
19 Married men, be affectionate to your wives, and do not treat them harshly.
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
20 Children be obedient to your parents in everything; for that is right for Christians.
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.
21 Fathers, do not fret and harass your children, or you may make them sullen and morose.
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be disheartened.
22 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.
Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eye-service, as pleasing men, but with simplicity of heart, fearing God.
23 Whatever you are doing, let your hearts be in your work, as a thing done for the Lord and not for men.
And whatever you do, do from the soul, as to the Lord, and not to men;
24 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.
knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance: for you serve the Lord Christ.
25 The man who perpetrates a wrong will find the wrong repaid to him; and with God there are no merely earthly distinctions.
But he that does wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has done; and there is no respect of persons.
