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 risen with the Meshiha, seek (the realities) which are on high, where the Meshiha sitteth at the right hand of Aloha.
2 Give your minds to the things that are above, not to the things that are on the earth.
Think of that which is on high, and not of that on 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 Meshiha in Aloha;
4 When Christ appears--He is our true Life--then you also will appear with Him in glory.
and when the Meshiha, who is our life, shall be manifested, then also will you be manifested 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, then, your members that are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, and passions, and evil desires, and covetousness, which itself is idolatry.
6 It is on account of these very sins that God's anger is coming,
For on account of these cometh the anger of Aloha upon the sons of disobedience.
7 and you also were once addicted to them, while you were living under their power.
In these also you walked aforetime, when you were conversant 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 cease you from all these; anger, wrath, malice, reviling, impure speech:
9 Do not speak falsehoods to one another, for you have stripped off the old self with its doings,
and lie not one to another, but put off the old man with all his manners,
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 wear the new, who is renovated by knowledge in the image of his Creator,
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 is not Jihudoya and Aramoya, nor circumcision and uncircumcision, nor Javanoya and Barbaroya, nor slave and freeman, but the Meshiha 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;
Wear, therefore, as the chosen of Aloha, saints and beloved, compassions and tenderness, and benignity, and lowliness of mind, and composure, and patience.
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.
And bear with one another, and forgive one another, if any man have a complaint against his neighbour; even as the Meshiha hath forgiven you, so also forgive;
14 And over all these put on love, which is the perfect bond of union;
and with all these charity, which is the girdle of perfection.
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 the Meshiha direct your hearts, for to it you have been called in one body; and give thanks to the Meshiha,
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.
whose word shall dwell in you abundantly, in all wisdom. And teach and admonish yourselves in psalms and in hymns and in songs of the Spirit, and with grace sing with your hearts unto Aloha.
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 you do, either in word or work, do (it) in the name of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, and with thanksgiving through him unto Aloha the Father.
18 Married women, be submissive to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
WIVES, be subject to your husbands, as it is right in the Meshiha.
19 Married men, be affectionate to your wives, and do not treat them harshly.
Men, 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 every thing, for so it is pleasing before our Lord.
21 Fathers, do not fret and harass your children, or you may make them sullen and morose.
Fathers, exasperate 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 every thing your masters according to the flesh, not in the sight of the eye (only), as those who please men, but from a simple heart, and in the fear of 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.
And all that you do, from all your heart do (it), as to our Lord, and not as 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.
And know that from our Lord you receive the reward in the inheritance; for the Lord the Meshiha you serve.
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 who injureth is recompensed as he had injured, and there is no acceptance of persons.
