5. So put to death anything that belongs to your earthly nature. Get rid of your sexual sins and unclean acts. Don't let your feelings get out of control. Remove from your life all evil longings. Stop always wanting more and more. You might as well be worshiping statues of gods.
6. God's anger is going to come because of those things.
7. That's the way you lived at one time in your life.
8. But now here are the kinds of things you must get rid of. You must put away anger, rage, hate and lies. Let no dirty words come out of your mouths.
9. Don't lie to each other. You have gotten rid of your old way of life and its habits.
10. You have started living a new life. It is being made new so that what you know has the Creator's likeness.
11. Here there is no Greek or Jew. There is no difference between those who are circumcised and those who are not. There is no rude outsider, or even a Scythian. There is no slave or free person. But Christ is everything. And he is in everything.