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Colossians Chapter 3

¹If then you were raised together with the AnointedOne, seek the things that are above, where the AnointedOne is, seated on the right hand of God.

²Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

³For you died, and your life is hidden with the AnointedOne in God.

⁴When the AnointedOne, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

⁵So, put to death your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

⁶For the sake of these things, wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

⁷You also once walked in those, when you lived in them; ⁸but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

⁹Don't lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings, ¹⁰and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator, ¹¹where there can't be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but the AnointedOne is all, and in all.

¹²So, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance, as God's chosen ones holy and loved; ¹³bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as the AnointedOne forgave you, so you also do.

¹⁴Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

¹⁵And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

¹⁶Let the word of the AnointedOne dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

¹⁷Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

¹⁸Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

¹⁹Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.

²⁰Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

²¹Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.

²²Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

²³And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men, ²⁴knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord the AnointedOne.

²⁵But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.