Colossians 3:2-10
Holman Christian Standard Bible
2 Set your minds on what is above, not on what is on the earth.(A) 3 For you have died,(B) and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God. 4 When the Messiah, who is your[a] life, is revealed,(C) then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.(D)
5 Therefore, put to death what belongs to your worldly nature:[b] sexual immorality, impurity,(E) lust,(F) evil desire, and greed,(G) which is idolatry.(H) 6 Because of these, God’s wrath(I) comes on the disobedient,[c] 7 and you once walked in these things when you were living(J) in them. 8 But now you must also put away(K) all the following: anger,(L) wrath,(M) malice,(N) slander,(O) and filthy language from your mouth.(P) 9 Do not lie(Q) to one another, since you have put off(R) the old self[d](S) with its practices 10 and have put on(T) the new self. You are being renewed in knowledge according to the image of your[e] Creator.(U)
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- Colossians 3:4 Other mss read our
- Colossians 3:5 Lit death the members on the earth
- Colossians 3:6 Other mss omit on the disobedient
- Colossians 3:9 Lit man; = a person before conversion
- Colossians 3:10 Lit his
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