1 So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.  * 3:1 Heb 10:122 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.  * 3:2 Php 3:193 For you died,  * 3:3 Rm 6:8 and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is your  * 3:4 Other mss read our life, appears,  * 3:4 2Co 4:11; 1Jn 1:2; 2:28 then you also will appear with him in glory.  * 3:4 Lk 9:32; Jn 17:24; 2Co 3:18; 2Pt 3:18

5 Therefore, put to death what belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity,  * 3:5 1Th 4:3,7 lust,  * 3:5 Rm 1:26; 1Th 4:5 evil desire, and greed,  * 3:5 Eph 5:3 which is idolatry.  * 3:5 1Co 10:14; Gl 5:20; 1Pt 4:36 Because of these, God’s wrath  * 3:6 Jms 1:19; Rv 6:16 is coming upon the disobedient,  * 3:6 Other mss omit upon the disobedient7 and you once walked in these things when you were living  * 3:7 Lk 15:13; Rm 6:2 in them. 8 But now, put away  * 3:8 Rm 13:12 all the following: anger,  * 3:8 Jms 1:19 wrath,  * 3:8 Rv 14:19 malice,  * 3:8 1Co 14:20 slander,  * 3:8 Jn 10:33; Rv 13:6 and filthy language from your mouth.  * 3:8 Eph 4:22–319 Do not lie  * 3:9 Lv 19:11; 1Tm 2:7 to one another, since you have put off  * 3:9 Col 2:15 the old self  * 3:9 Eph 4:22 with its practices 10 and have put on  * 3:10 Pr 31:25 the new self. You are being renewed in knowledge according to the image of your  * 3:10 Lit his Creator.  * 3:10 Mk 13:19; Jn 1:3; Rv 3:1411 In Christ there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all.  * 3:11 Eph 1:23

12 Therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and dearly loved,  * 3:12 Jn 3:16; 2Th 2:13; Rv 12:11 put on compassion, kindness,  * 3:12 2Co 6:6 humility,  * 3:12 Ac 20:19; Eph 4:2; Php 2:3; Col 2:18,23; 1Pt 5:5 gentleness,  * 3:12 Jms 3:13 and patience,  * 3:12 2Tm 3:1013 bearing with one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a grievance against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you are also to forgive.  * 3:13 2Co 2:7,10; 12:13; Eph 4:3214 Above all, put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity. 15 And let the peace of Christ, to which you were also called  * 3:15 Jn 14:27; 1Co 7:15; Php 4:7 in one body, rule your hearts. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell richly among you, in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another through psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs,  * 3:16 Or and songs prompted by the Spirit singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. 17 And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name  * 3:17 Jn 14:13; Php 2:10 of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

18 Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.  * 3:18–4:1 Eph 5:22–6:919 Husbands,  * 3:19 1Pt 3:1 love your wives  * 3:19 Eph 5:25; 1Pt 3:1 and don’t be bitter  * 3:19 Rv 8:11; 10:9–10 toward them. 20 Children,  * 3:20 Gn 3:16; Lv 10:14; Dt 31:12; Ps 37:25; Pr 20:7; Lk 1:7; Ac 2:39; Heb 2:13 obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. 21 Fathers,  * 3:21 Ps 103:13; Eph 6:4; Heb 11:23 do not exasperate  * 3:21 2Co 9:2 your children, so that they won’t become discouraged. 22 Slaves, obey your human  * 3:22 Rm 1:3; 4:1; 8:4–5,12–13; 9:3,5; 1Co 1:26; 10:18; 2Co 1:17; 5:16; 10:2–3; 11:18; Gl 4:23,29; Eph 6:5 masters in everything. Don’t work only while being watched, as people-pleasers, but work wholeheartedly, fearing the Lord.  * 3:22 Pr 1:7; Rv 14:723 Whatever you do, do it from the heart, as something done for the Lord and not for people,  * 3:23 Eph 6:724 knowing that you will receive the reward of an inheritance from the Lord. You serve the Lord Christ. 25 For the wrongdoer  * 3:25 Rv 2:11 will be paid back for whatever wrong he has done, and there is no favoritism.