1. Therefore, if you have risen together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
2. Consider the things that are above, not the things that are upon the earth.
3. For you have died, and so your life is hidden with Christ in God.
4. When Christ, your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
5. Therefore, mortify your body, while it is upon the earth. For because of fornication, impurity, lust, evil desires, and avarice, which are a kind of service to idols,
6. the wrath of God has overwhelmed the sons of unbelief.
7. You, too, walked in these things, in times past, when you were living among them.
8. But now you must set aside all these things: anger, indignation, malice, blasphemy, and indecent speech from your mouth.
9. Do not lie to one another. Strip yourselves of the old man, with his deeds,
10. and clothe yourself with the new man, who has been renewed by knowledge, in accord with the image of the One who created him,
11. where there is neither Gentile nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian nor Scythian, servant nor free. Instead, Christ is everything, in everyone.
12. Therefore, clothe yourselves like the elect of God: holy and beloved, with hearts of mercy, kindness, humility, modesty, and patience.
13. Support one another, and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive one another. For just as the Lord has forgiven you, so also must you do.