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So put to death your worldly impulses:[a] sexual sin, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry). It is because of these things that the wrath of God is coming on those who are disobedient.[b] You used to behave like them as you lived among them. But now you must also get rid of anger, wrath, malice, slander, obscene speech, and all such sins. Do not lie to one another, for you have stripped off the old nature with its practices 10 and have clothed yourselves with the new nature, which is being renewed in full knowledge, consistent with the image of the one who created it. 11 In him[c] there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian,[d] slave, or free person. Instead, the Messiah[e] is all and in all.

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 3:5 Lit. the parts that are on the earth
  2. Colossians 3:6 Lit. on the sons of disobedience
  3. Colossians 3:11 Lit. it, 11 where
  4. Colossians 3:11 I.e. uncivilized person
  5. Colossians 3:11 Or Christ