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1 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.
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1 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
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2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.
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2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
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3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
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3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
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4 When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
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4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
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5 Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
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5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
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6 Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience,
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6 Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.
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7 in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.
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7 You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.
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8 But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.
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8 But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
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9 Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds,
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9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices
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10 and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,
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10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
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| Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New King James Version) |
Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |
