1  If therefore ye have been raised with the Christ, seek the things which are above, where the Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God: 2  have your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth; 3  for ye have died, and your life is hid with the Christ in God. 4  When the Christ is manifested who is our life, then shall ye also be manifested with him in glory.

5  Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry. 6  On account of which things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. 7  In which ye also once walked when ye lived in these things.

8  But now, put off, ye also, all these things, wrath, anger, malice, blasphemy, vile language out of your mouth. 9  Do not lie to one another, having put off the old man with his deeds, 10  and having put on the new, renewed into full knowledge according to the image of him that has created him; 11  wherein there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman; but Christ is everything, and in all.

12  Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;