The Risen Life

Collossians 3:1-11

[3] Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

[2] Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

[3] For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

[4] When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

[5] Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.

[6] Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on those who are disobedient.

[7] You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.

[8] But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.

[9] Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off your old self with its practices

[10] and have put on the new self, which is being renewed, in knowledge, in the image of its Creator.

[11] Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.