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Seek the Things Above and Put on the New Self

Colossians 3:1-17

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Chapter 3
1 If therefore you were raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on the things above, not on the things on the earth. 3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ is manifested, your life, then you also will be manifested with him in glory. 5 Therefore put to death the members that are on the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry. 6 On account of which things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience. 7 In which things you also once walked when you were living in them. 8 But now you also put away all these things—wrath, anger, wickedness, blasphemy, filthy speech—out of your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, having put off the old man with its deeds, 10 and having put on the new one, which is being renewed unto knowledge according to the image of the one who created him, 11 where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free, but Christ is all things and in all. 12 Clothe yourselves therefore as God's elect, holy and loved, with bowels of mercy, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering, 13 bearing with one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a complaint against anyone; just as also the Lord forgave you, so also you; 14 But above all these things is love, which is the bond of perfection. 15 Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, into which you were also called in one body. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, with grace singing in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, whether in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.