¹ If, therefore, ye have been raised together with the Christ, the things on high, be seeking, where, the Christ, is—on the right hand of God, sitting;

² The things on high, hold in esteem, not the things upon the earth:

³ For ye have died, and, your life, is hid, together with the Christ, in God,—

⁴ As soon as, the Christ, shall be made manifest—our life, then, ye also, together with him, shall be made manifest in glory;

⁵ Make dead, therefore, your members that are on the earth—as regardeth fornication, impurity, passion, base coveting, and greed, the which, is idolatry,—

⁶ On account of which things cometh the anger of God,—

⁷ Wherein, ye also, walked, at one time, when ye were living in these things;

⁸ But, now, do, ye also, put them all away,—anger, wrath, baseness, defamation, shameful talk out of your mouth:

⁹ Be not guilty of falsehood one to another: having stript off the old man, together with his practices,

¹⁰ And having put on the new—who is being moulded afresh unto personal knowledge, after the image of him that hath created him,—

¹¹ Wherein there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, bond, free,—but, all things and in all, Christ:

¹² Put on, therefore, as men chosen of God, holy and beloved, tender affections of compassion, graciousness, lowliness of mind, meekness, long-suffering,

¹³ Bearing one with another, and in favour forgiving one another—if any, against any, have a complaint,—according as, the Lord, in favour forgave you, so also ye;

¹⁴ And, over all these things, love, which is a uniting-bond of completeness;

¹⁵ And let, the peace of Christ, act as umpire in your hearts, unto which ye have been called in [one] body, and be thankful:

¹⁶ Let, the word of the Christ, dwell within you richly,—in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another, with psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, with gratitude, raising song with your hearts unto God:

¹⁷ And whatsoever ye may be doing, in word, or in work, all things, [do] in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks unto the Divine Father through him:—

¹⁸ Ye wives! be submitting yourselves unto your husbands, as is becoming in the Lord;

¹⁹ Ye husbands! be loving your wives, and be not embittered against them;

²⁰ Ye children! be obedient unto your parents in all things, for, this, is, well pleasing, in the Lord;

²¹ Ye fathers! be not irritating your children, lest they be disheartened;

²² Ye servants! be obedient, in all things, unto them who, according to the flesh, are your masters,—not with eye-service, as man-pleasers, but with singleness of heart, revering the Lord,—

²³ Whatsoever ye may be doing, from the soul, be working at it, as unto the Lord, and not unto men,-

²⁴ Knowing that, from the Lord, ye shall duly receive the recompense of the inheritance,—unto the Lord Christ, are ye in service;

²⁵ For, he that acteth unrighteously, shall get back what he had unrighteously done, and there is no respect of persons;