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 ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
2 Give your minds to the things that are above, not to the things that are on the earth.
Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth.
3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
4 When Christ appears--He is our true Life--then you also will appear with Him in glory.
When Christ, [who is] our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested 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.
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, the which is idolatry;
6 It is on account of these very sins that God's anger is coming,
for which things’ sake cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience;
7 and you also were once addicted to them, while you were living under their power.
in the which ye also walked aforetime, when ye lived in these things.
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 put ye also away all these; anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of 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 ye have put off the old man with his doings,
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 being renewed unto knowledge after 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.
where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman: 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 God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;
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.
forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye:
14 And over all these put on love, which is the perfect bond of union;
and above all these things [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 Christ rule in your hearts, to the which also ye were called in one body; and be ye 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 Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another with psalms [and] hymns [and] spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God.
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 whatsoever ye do, in word or in deed, [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
18 Married women, be submissive to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting 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 in the Lord.
21 Fathers, do not fret and harass your children, or you may make them sullen and morose.
Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.
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 them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord:
23 Whatever you are doing, let your hearts be in your work, as a thing done for the Lord and not for men.
whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto 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 ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance: ye 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.
For he that doeth wrong shall receive again for the wrong that he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.
