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.
12. You are God's chosen people. You are holy and dearly loved. So put on tender mercy and kindness as if they were your clothes. Don't be proud. Be gentle and patient.
13. Put up with each other. Forgive the things you are holding against one another. Forgive, just as the Lord forgave you.
14. And over all of those good things put on love. Love holds them all together perfectly as if they were one.