| English Standard Version | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. | 1Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. |
| 2Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. | 2Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. |
| 3For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. | 3For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. |
| 4When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. | 4When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory. |
| 5Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. | 5Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. |
| 6On account of these the wrath of God is coming. | 6For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience, |
| 7In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. | 7and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them. |
| 8But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. | 8But now you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth. |
| 9Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices | 9Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices, |
| 10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. | 10and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him-- |
| 11Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. | 11a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all. |
| 12Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, | 12So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; |
| 13bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. | 13bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you. |
| 14And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. | 14Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity. |
| 15And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. | 15Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful. |
| 16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. | 16Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God. |
| 17And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. | 17Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father. |
| 18Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. | 18Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. |
| 19Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them. | 19Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them. |
| 20Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. | 20Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord. |
| 21Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged. | 21Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart. |
| 22Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. | 22Slaves, in all things obey those who are your masters on earth, not with external service, as those who merely please men, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. |
| 23Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, | 23Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, |
| 24knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. | 24knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve. |
| 25For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality. | 25For he who does wrong will receive the consequences of the wrong which he has done, and that without partiality. |
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