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1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sit­teth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your af­fec­tion on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall ap­pear, then shall ye also ap­pear with him in glo­ry. 5 Mor­ti­fy there­fore your mem­bers which are upon the earth; for­ni­ca­tion, un­clean­ness, in­or­di­nate af­fec­tion, evil con­cu­pis­cence, and cov­etous­ness, which is idol­a­try: 6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the chil­dren of dis­obe­di­ence: 7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. 8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, mal­ice, blas­phe­my, filthy com­mu­ni­ca­tion out of your mouth. 9 Lie not one to an­oth­er, see­ing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; 10 And have put on the new man, which is re­newed in knowl­edge af­ter the im­age of him that cre­at­ed him: 11 Where there is nei­ther Greek nor Jew, cir­cum­ci­sion nor un­cir­cum­ci­sion, Bar­bar­ian, Scythi­an, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. 12 Put on there­fore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bow­els of mer­cies, kind­ness, hum­ble­ness of mind, meek­ness, long­suf­fer­ing; 13 For­bear­ing one an­oth­er, and for­giv­ing one an­oth­er, if any man have a quar­rel against any: even as Christ for­gave you, so also do ye. 14 And above all these things put on char­i­ty, which is the bond of per­fect­ness. 15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thank­ful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you rich­ly in all wis­dom; teach­ing and ad­mon­ish­ing one an­oth­er in psalms and hymns and spir­i­tu­al songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 17 And what­so­ev­er ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Je­sus, giv­ing thanks to God and the Fa­ther by him. 18 Wives, sub­mit your­selves unto your own hus­bands, as it is fit in the Lord. 19 Hus­bands, love your wives, and be not bit­ter against them. 20 Chil­dren, obey your par­ents in all things: for this is well pleas­ing unto the Lord. 21 Fa­thers, pro­voke not your chil­dren ­to anger, lest they be dis­cour­aged. 22 Ser­vants, obey in all things your mas­ters ac­cord­ing to the flesh; not with eye­ser­vice, as men­pleasers; but in sin­gle­ness of heart, fear­ing God: 23 And what­so­ev­er ye do, do it hearti­ly, as to the Lord, and not unto men; 24 Know­ing that of the Lord ye shall re­ceive the re­ward of the in­her­i­tance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. 25 But he that doeth wrong shall re­ceive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no re­spect of per­sons.