Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

Put On the New Man

3 Therefore, if you have been ^(A)raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, ^(B)seated at the right hand of God. ^2 [a](C)Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. ³ For you ^(D)died and your life has been hidden with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ, ^(E)who is our life, is manifested, ^(F)then you also will be manifested with Him in glory.

^5 (G)Therefore, ^[b]consider ^(H)the members of your earthly body as dead to ^(I)sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry. ⁶ On account of these things, ^(J)the wrath of God is coming ^[c]upon the sons of disobedience, ⁷ and ^(K)in them you also once walked, when you were living ^[d]in them. ⁸ But now you also, ^(L)lay them all aside: ^(M)wrath, anger, malice, slander, and ^(N)abusive speech from your mouth. ^9 [e](O)Do not lie to one another, since you ^(P)put off the old man with its evil practices, ¹⁰ and have ^(Q)put on the new man who is being ^[f](R)renewed to a full knowledge ^(S)according to the image of the One who ^(T)created him— ¹¹ a renewal in which ^(U)there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, ^(V)circumcised and uncircumcised, ^[g](W)barbarian, Scythian, ^(X)slave, and freeman, but ^(Y)Christ is all and in all.