Colossians 3:1–11

The Life of the New Man

3 So if you have been raised with the * Messiah, seek what is above, where the Messiah is, seated at the right hand of God. d 2 Set your minds on what is above, not on what is on the earth. e 3 For you have died, f and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God. 4 When the Messiah, who is your g life, is revealed, h then you also will be revealed with Him in glory. i

5 Therefore, put to death what belongs to your worldly nature: j sexual immorality, impurity, k lust, l evil desire, and greed, m which is idolatry. n 6 Because of these, God’s wrath o comes on the disobedient, p 7 and you once * walked in these things when you were living q in them. 8 But now you must also put away r all the following: anger, s wrath, t malice, u slander, v and filthy language from your mouth. w 9 Do not lie x to one another, since you have put off y the old self z a with its practices 10 and have put on b the new self. You are being renewed in knowledge according to the image of your c Creator. d 11 In Christ e there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, f * slave and free; but Christ is all and in all. g