Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

Put On the New Self

3 Therefore if you have been ^(A)raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, ^(B)seated at the right hand of God. ^2 [a](C)Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. ³ For you have ^(D)died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ, ^(E)who is our life, is revealed, ^(F)then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.

^5 (G)Therefore ^[b]consider ^(H)the members of your earthly body as dead to ^[c](I)immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which ^[d]amounts to idolatry. ⁶ For it is because of these things that ^(J)the wrath of God will come ^[e]upon the sons of disobedience, ⁷ and ^(K)in them you also once walked, when you were living ^[f]in them. ⁸ But now you also, ^(L)put them all aside: ^(M)anger, wrath, malice, slander, and ^(N)abusive speech from your mouth. ^9 [g](O)Do not lie to one another, since you ^(P)laid aside the old ^[h]self with its evil practices, ¹⁰ and have ^(Q)put on the new self who is being ^[i](R)renewed to a true knowledge ^(S)according to the image of the One who ^(T)created him— ¹¹ a renewal in which ^(U)there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, ^(V)circumcised and uncircumcised, ^[j](W)barbarian, Scythian, ^(X)slave and freeman, but ^(Y)Christ is all, and in all.