Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

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

² Set your mind on things which are above, not on things which are on the Earth.

³ For you have died, and your life has been hidden with Christ in God.

⁴ When Christ (Who is your life) is revealed, then you shall also be revealed with Him in Glory.

⁵ Therefore, mortify those parts of your body which are of the Earth: fornication, impurity, depraved passions, lust, and covetousness (which is idolatry),

⁶ for the sake of which things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience;

⁷ and wherein also you once walked when you lived in them.

⁸ But now, however, take all these things out of your mouth also: anger, wrath, malice, slander, foul language.

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

¹⁰ and having put on the new (who is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him who created him).

¹¹ There is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but all, and in all, is Christ.