003:002 Give your minds to the things that are above, not to the things
that are on the earth.
003:003 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
003:004 When Christ appears--He is our true Life--then you also will
appear with Him in glory.
003:005 Therefore put to death your earthward inclinations--
fornication, impurity, sensual passion, unholy desire,
and all greed, for that is a form of idolatry.
003:006 It is on account of these very sins that God's anger is coming,
003:007 and you also were once addicted to them, while you were living
under their power.
003:008 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.
003:009 Do not speak falsehoods to one another, for you have stripped
off the old self with its doings,
003:010 and have clothed yourselves with the new self which is being
remoulded into full knowledge so as to become like Him
who created it.
003:011 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.
003:012 Clothe yourselves therefore, as God's own people holy and
dearly loved, with tender-heartedness, kindness, lowliness
of mind, meekness, long-suffering;
003:013 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.
003:014 And over all these put on love, which is the perfect bond of union;
003:015 and let the peace which Christ gives settle all questionings