Colossians 3:1-11

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Your life hidden in Christ

3 Therefore, if you were raised with Christ, look for the things that are above where Christ is sitting at God’s right side. ²Think about the things above and not things on earth. ³You died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. ⁴When Christ, who is your life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory.

⁵So put to death the parts of your life that belong to the earth, such as sexual immorality, moral corruption, lust, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry). ⁶The wrath of God is coming upon disobedient people because of these things. ⁷You used to live this way, when you were alive to these things. ⁸But now set aside these things, such as anger, rage, malice, slander, and obscene language. ⁹Don’t lie to each other. Take off the old human nature with its practices ¹⁰and put on the new nature, which is renewed in knowledge by conforming to the image of the one who created it. ¹¹In this image there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all things and in all people.

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Psalm 145:10-13

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¹⁰All that you have made gives thanks to you, Lord;
    all your faithful ones bless you!
¹¹They speak of the glory of your kingdom;
    they talk all about your power,
¹²    to inform all human beings about God’s power
    and the majestic glory of God’s kingdom.
¹³Your kingdom is a kingship that lasts forever;
    your rule endures for all generations.
The Lord is trustworthy in all that he says,
    faithful in all that he does.^[a]

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Footnotes

Psalm 145:13 LXX, DSS (11QPs^a), Syr; MT lacks these lines, but they correspond to the nun line in the alphabetic acrostic poem.

Luke 6:20-26

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Happy people and doomed people

²⁰Jesus raised his eyes to his disciples and said:

“Happy are you who are poor,
    because God’s kingdom is yours.
²¹Happy are you who hunger now,
    because you will be satisfied.
Happy are you who weep now,
    because you will laugh.

²²Happy are you when people hate you, reject you, insult you, and condemn your name as evil because of the Human One.^[a] ²³Rejoice when that happens! Leap for joy because you have a great reward in heaven. Their ancestors did the same things to the prophets.

²⁴But how terrible for you who are rich,
    because you have already received your comfort.
²⁵How terrible for you who have plenty now,
    because you will be hungry.
How terrible for you who laugh now,
    because you will mourn and weep.
²⁶How terrible for you when all speak well of you.
    Their ancestors did the same things to the false prophets.