NHEBJE - Colossians - 3

3:1  If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

3:2  Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

3:3  For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

3:4  When Christ, your life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

3:5  Put to death, therefore, whatever is worldly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

3:6  for which things' sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

3:7  You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

3:8  but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

3:9  Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

3:10  and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

3:11  where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

3:12  Put on therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

3:13  bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as the Lord forgave you, so you also do.

3:14  Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

3:15  And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.

3:16  Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to God.

3:17  Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

3:18  Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

3:19  Husbands, love your wives, and do not be bitter against them.

3:20  Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

3:21  Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.

3:22  Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord.

3:23  And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

3:24  knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

3:25  But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.