Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

3 If therefore ye have been raised with the Christ, seek the things [which are] above, where the Christ is, sitting at [the] right hand of God:

² have your mind on the things [that are] above, not on the things [that are] on the earth;

³ for ye have died, and your life is hid with the Christ in God.

⁴ When the Christ is manifested who [is] our life, then shall *ye* also be manifested with him in glory.

⁵ Put to death therefore your members which [are] upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry.

⁶ On account of which things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

⁷ In which *ye* also once walked when ye lived in these things.

⁸ But now, put off, *ye* also, all [these] things, wrath, anger, malice, blasphemy, vile language out of your mouth.

⁹ Do not lie to one another, having put off the old man with his deeds,

¹⁰ and having put on the new, renewed into full knowledge according to [the] image of him that has created him;

¹¹ wherein there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman; but Christ [is] everything, and in all.