Worsley - Colossians - 3

3:1  If ye then be risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God.

3:2  Mind the things above, not those on the earth.

3:3  For ye are dead as to the world, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

3:4  When Christ, who is your life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.

3:5  Mortify therefore your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, disorderly passion, evil concupiscence, and insatiable desire, which is indeed idolatry:

3:6  for which things the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience.

3:7  In which ye also formerly walked, when ye lived among them.

3:8  But now put away all these also, wrath, animosity, malice, calumny, and filthy discourse out of your mouth.

3:9  Lie not one to another, seeing ye have put off the old man with his evil practices;

3:10  and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge, after the image of Him that created him.

3:11  Wherein there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free: but Christ is all and in all.

3:12  Put on therefore, as the elect of God holy and beloved, bowels of mercy, benignity, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering;

3:13  bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if any one has a complaint against any: even as Christ hath forgiven you, so also do ye.

3:14  And above all these put on love, which is the band of perfection.

3:15  And let the peace of God preside in your hearts, to which ye are also called as united in one body: and be thankful for it.

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

3:17  And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to our God and Father by Him.

3:18  Wives, be subject to your husbands, as becometh you in the Lord:

3:19  and ye husbands, love your wives, and be not embittered against them.

3:20  Children, obey your parents in all things; for this is well-pleasing to the Lord:

3:21  and ye fathers, do not irritate your children, least they be discouraged.

3:22  Servants, be obedient in all things to your lawful masters, not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but in uprightness of heart, fearing God; and whatever service ye do,

3:23  do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not to men;

3:24  knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance; for ye serve the Lord Christ;

3:25  but he that doth unjustly, shall receive for what wrong he hath done; and there is no respect of persons with God: