8. But now is the time to get rid of anger, rage, malicious behavior, slander, and dirty language.
9. Don’t lie to each other, for you have stripped off your old sinful nature and all its wicked deeds.
10. Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him.
11. In this new life, it doesn’t matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbaric, uncivilized, slave, or free. Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us.
12. Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.