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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,[a] circumcised or uncircumcised, barbaric, uncivilized,[b] 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.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:11a Greek a Greek.
  2. 3:11b Greek Barbarian, Scythian.

10 and have put on the new self,(A) which is being renewed(B) in knowledge in the image of its Creator.(C) 11 Here there is no Gentile or Jew,(D) circumcised or uncircumcised,(E) barbarian, Scythian, slave or free,(F) but Christ is all,(G) and is in all.

12 Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves(H) with compassion, kindness, humility,(I) gentleness and patience.(J)

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