Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

3 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God.

² Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

³ For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

⁴ When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.

⁵ Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness which is idolatry.

⁶ Because of these, the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience,

⁷ in which ye also once walked, when ye lived in them.

⁸ But now ye also put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

⁹ Do not lie one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds,

¹⁰ and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him,

¹¹ where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free, but Christ is all and in all.