Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

3 If you then were raised with Christ, desire those things which are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God. ² Set your affection on things above, not on things on earth. ³ For you are dead, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ who is our life shall appear, then you also shall appear with Him in glory.

⁵ Therefore put to death the parts of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ⁶ Because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience. ⁷ You also once walked in these, when you lived in them. ⁸ But now you must also put away all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, and filthy language out of your mouth. ⁹ Do not lie one to another, since you have put off the old nature with its deeds, ¹⁰ and have embraced the new nature, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him who created it, ¹¹ where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all.