3:1 | Therefore, if you have risen together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. |
3:2 | Consider the things that are above, not the things that are upon the earth. |
3:3 | For you have died, and so your life is hidden with Christ in God. |
3:4 | When Christ, your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. |
3:5 | Therefore, mortify your body, while it is upon the earth. For because of fornication, impurity, lust, evil desires, and avarice, which are a kind of service to idols, |
3:6 | the wrath of God has overwhelmed the sons of unbelief. |
3:7 | You, too, walked in these things, in times past, when you were living among them. |
3:8 | But now you must set aside all these things: anger, indignation, malice, blasphemy, and indecent speech from your mouth. |
3:9 | Do not lie to one another. Strip yourselves of the old man, with his deeds, |
3:10 | and clothe yourself with the new man, who has been renewed by knowledge, in accord with the image of the One who created him, |
3:11 | where there is neither Gentile nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian nor Scythian, servant nor free. Instead, Christ is everything, in everyone. |