(A)Therefore [a]consider (B)the members of your earthly body as dead to [b](C)immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which [c]amounts to idolatry. For it is because of these things that (D)the wrath of God will come [d]upon the sons of disobedience, and (E)in them you also once walked, when you were living [e]in them. But now you also, (F)put them all aside: (G)anger, wrath, malice, slander, and (H)abusive speech from your mouth. [f](I)Do not lie to one another, since you (J)laid aside the old [g]self with its evil practices, 10 and have (K)put on the new self who is being [h](L)renewed to a true knowledge (M)according to the image of the One who (N)created him— 11 a renewal in which (O)there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, (P)circumcised and uncircumcised, [i](Q)barbarian, Scythian, (R)slave and freeman, but (S)Christ is all, and in all.

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 3:5 Lit put to death the members which are upon the earth
  2. Colossians 3:5 Lit fornication
  3. Colossians 3:5 Lit is
  4. Colossians 3:6 Two early mss do not contain upon the sons of disobedience
  5. Colossians 3:7 Or among these
  6. Colossians 3:9 Or Stop lying
  7. Colossians 3:9 Gr anthropos
  8. Colossians 3:10 Lit renovated
  9. Colossians 3:11 I.e. those who were not Greeks, either by birth or by culture