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New American Standard Bible 1995

Colossians 3:3-16

3For you have 1died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4When Christ, 2who is our life, is revealed, 3then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.

54Therefore 5consider 6the members of your earthly body as dead to 78immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which 9amounts to idolatry. 6For it is because of these things that 10the wrath of God will come 11upon the sons of disobedience, 7and 12in them you also once walked, when you were living 13in them. 8But now you also, 14put them all aside: 15anger, wrath, malice, slander, and 16abusive speech from your mouth. 91718Do not lie to one another, since you 19laid aside the old 20self with its evil practices, 10and have 21put on the new self who is being 2223renewed to a true knowledge 24according to the image of the One who 25created him-- 11a renewal in which 26there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, 27circumcised and uncircumcised, 2829barbarian, Scythian, 30slave and freeman, but 31Christ is all, and in all.

12So, as those who have been 32chosen of God, holy and beloved, 33put on a 34heart of compassion, kindness, 35humility, gentleness and 3637patience; 1338bearing with one another, and 39forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; 40just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you. 14Beyond all these things put on love, which is 4142the perfect bond of 43unity. 15Let 44the peace of Christ 45rule in your hearts, to which 46indeed you were called in 47one body; and 48be thankful. 16Let 49the word of 50Christ richly dwell within you, 51with all wisdom 52teaching and admonishing 53one another 54with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, 55singing 56with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

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Notes

  1. 1. Colossians 3:3 Rom 6:2; 2 Cor 5:14; Col 2:20 ↩
  2. 2. Colossians 3:4 John 11:25; Gal 2:20 ↩
  3. 3. Colossians 3:4 1 Cor 1:7; Phil 3:21; 1 Pet 1:13; 1 John 2:28; 3:2 ↩
  4. 4. Colossians 3:5 Rom 8:13 ↩
  5. 5. Colossians 3:5 Lit put to death the members which are upon the earth ↩
  6. 6. Colossians 3:5 Col 2:11 ↩
  7. 7. Colossians 3:5 Lit fornication ↩
  8. 8. Colossians 3:5 Mark 7:21f; 1 Cor 6:9f, 18; 2 Cor 12:21; Gal 5:19f; Eph 4:19; 5:3, 5 ↩
  9. 9. Colossians 3:5 Lit is ↩
  10. 10. Colossians 3:6 Rom 1:18; Eph 5:6 ↩
  11. 11. Colossians 3:6 Two early mss do not contain upon the sons of disobedience ↩
  12. 12. Colossians 3:7 Eph 2:2 ↩
  13. 13. Colossians 3:7 Or among these ↩
  14. 14. Colossians 3:8 Eph 4:22 ↩
  15. 15. Colossians 3:8 Eph 4:31 ↩
  16. 16. Colossians 3:8 Eph 4:29 ↩
  17. 17. Colossians 3:9 Or Stop lying ↩
  18. 18. Colossians 3:9 Eph 4:25 ↩
  19. 19. Colossians 3:9 Eph 4:22 ↩
  20. 20. Colossians 3:9 Gr anthropos ↩
  21. 21. Colossians 3:10 Eph 4:24 ↩
  22. 22. Colossians 3:10 Lit renovated ↩
  23. 23. Colossians 3:10 Rom 12:2; 2 Cor 4:16; Eph 4:23 ↩
  24. 24. Colossians 3:10 Gen 1:26; Rom 8:29 ↩
  25. 25. Colossians 3:10 Eph 2:10 ↩
  26. 26. Colossians 3:11 Rom 10:12; 1 Cor 12:13; Gal 3:28 ↩
  27. 27. Colossians 3:11 1 Cor 7:19; Gal 5:6 ↩
  28. 28. Colossians 3:11 I.e. those who were not Greeks, either by birth or by culture ↩
  29. 29. Colossians 3:11 Acts 28:2 ↩
  30. 30. Colossians 3:11 Eph 6:8 ↩
  31. 31. Colossians 3:11 Eph 1:23 ↩
  32. 32. Colossians 3:12 Luke 18:7 ↩
  33. 33. Colossians 3:12 Eph 4:24 ↩
  34. 34. Colossians 3:12 Luke 1:78; Gal 5:22f; Phil 2:1 ↩
  35. 35. Colossians 3:12 Eph 4:2; Phil 2:3 ↩
  36. 36. Colossians 3:12 I.e. forbearance toward others ↩
  37. 37. Colossians 3:12 1 Cor 13:4; 2 Cor 6:6 ↩
  38. 38. Colossians 3:13 Eph 4:2 ↩
  39. 39. Colossians 3:13 Rom 15:7; Eph 4:32 ↩
  40. 40. Colossians 3:13 Rom 15:7; Eph 4:32 ↩
  41. 41. Colossians 3:14 Lit the uniting bond of perfection ↩
  42. 42. Colossians 3:14 Eph 4:3 ↩
  43. 43. Colossians 3:14 John 17:23; Heb 6:1 ↩
  44. 44. Colossians 3:15 John 14:27 ↩
  45. 45. Colossians 3:15 Or act as arbiter ↩
  46. 46. Colossians 3:15 Lit also ↩
  47. 47. Colossians 3:15 Eph 2:16 ↩
  48. 48. Colossians 3:15 Or show yourselves thankful ↩
  49. 49. Colossians 3:16 Rom 10:17; Eph 5:26; 1 Thess 1:8 ↩
  50. 50. Colossians 3:16 One early ms reads the Lord ↩
  51. 51. Colossians 3:16 Or in ↩
  52. 52. Colossians 3:16 Col 1:28 ↩
  53. 53. Colossians 3:16 Or one another, singing with psalms... ↩
  54. 54. Colossians 3:16 Eph 5:19 ↩
  55. 55. Colossians 3:16 1 Cor 14:15 ↩
  56. 56. Colossians 3:16 Or by; lit in His grace ↩

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