^2 [a](A)Set your minds on the things that are above, not on the things that are on earth. ³ For you have ^(B)died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ, ^(C)who is our life, is revealed, ^(D)then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.

^5 (E)Therefore, ^[b]treat ^(F)the parts of your earthly body as dead to ^(G)sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which ^[c]amounts to idolatry. ⁶ For it is because of these things that ^(H)the wrath of God is coming ^[d]upon the ^[e]sons of disobedience, ⁷ and ^(I)in them you also once walked, when you were living ^[f]in them. ⁸ But now you also, ^(J)rid yourselves of all of them: ^(K)anger, wrath, malice, slander, and ^(L)obscene speech from your mouth. ^9 [g](M)Do not lie to one another, since you ^(N)stripped off the old ^[h]self with its evil practices, ¹⁰ and have ^(O)put on the new self, which is being ^[i](P)renewed to a true knowledge ^(Q)according to the image of the One who ^(R)created it—