Colossians 3:1–11

Living as Those Made Alive in Christ

3Since, then, you have been raised with Christ,^u set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.^{v 2}Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.^{w 3}For you died,^x and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. ⁴When Christ, who is your^a life,^y appears,^z then you also will appear with him in glory.^a

⁵Put to death,^b therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature:^c sexual immorality,^d impurity, lust, evil desires and greed,^e which is idolatry.^{f 6}Because of these, the wrath of God^g is coming.^{b 7}You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.^{h 8}But now you must also rid yourselvesⁱ of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander,^j and filthy language from your lips.^{k 9}Do not lie to each other,^l since you have taken off your old self^m with its practices ¹⁰and have put on the new self,ⁿ which is being renewed^o in knowledge in the image of its Creator.^{p 11}Here there is no Gentile or Jew,^q circumcised or uncircumcised,^r barbarian, Scythian, slave or free,^s but Christ is all,^t and is in all.