Since, then, you have been raised with CHRIST, set your HEARTS (thought, emotions, attitudes) on things above, where CHRIST is seated at the right hand of GOD. Set your MINDS (logic and reasoning) on things above, not on earthly things. For you DIED, and your LIFE is now hidden with CHRIST in GOD. (Eph 2:6) When CHRIST, who is your LIFE, appears, then you also will appear with CHRIST in GLORY.
Put to DEATH, THEREFORE, whatever belongs to your EARTHLY NATURE: (OUTER MAN) SEXUAL IMMORALITY, IMPURITY, LUST, EVIL DESIRES and GREED, which is IDOLATRY. Because of these, the WRATH of GOD is coming on those who are DISOBEDIENT. You used to WALK in these ways, in the LIFE you once LIVED. But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: ANGER, RAGE, MALICE, SLANDER, and FILTHY LANGUAGE from your LIPS. Do not LIE to each other, since you have taken off your OLD SELF (OUTER MAN) with its PRACTICES, and have put on the NEW SELF, (INNER MAN) which is being renewed in KNOWLEDGE in the IMAGE of its CREATOR. (JESUS CHRIST) Here there is no GREEK or JEW, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, SCYTHIAN, slave or free, but CHRIST is ALL, and in ALL.
THEREFORE, as GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE, HOLY and DEARLY LOVED, CLOTHE YOURSELVES with COMPASSION, KINDNESS, HUMILITY, GENTLENESS and PATIENCE. BEAR with each other and FORGIVE whatever GRIEVANCES you may against one another. FORGIVE as the LORD FORGAVE you. And over all these VIRTUES put on LOVE, which BINDS them all together in PERFECT UNITY.
Let the PEACE of CHRIST (Eph 2:14-15) RULE in your HEARTS,(INNER MAN) since as MEMBERS of ONE BODY you were CALLED to PEACE. And be THANKFUL. Let the WORD of CHRIST DWELL in you RICHLY as you TEACH and ADMONISH one another with all WISDOM, and as you SING PSALMS, HYMNS and SPIRITUAL SONGS with GRATITUDE in your HEARTS (INNER MAN) to GOD. And whatever you DO, weather in WORD or DEED, DO it all in the name of the LORD JESUS, GIVING THANKS to GOD the FATHER through CHRIST. AMEN!
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