Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

The Life of the New Man

3 So if you have been raised with the Messiah, seek what is above, where the Messiah is, seated at the right hand of God.^{(A) 2} Set your minds on what is above, not on what is on the earth.^{(B) 3} For you have died,^(C) and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God. ⁴ When the Messiah, who is your^[a] life, is revealed,^(D) then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.^(E)

⁵ Therefore, put to death what belongs to your worldly nature:^[b] sexual immorality, impurity,^(F) lust,^(G) evil desire, and greed,^(H) which is idolatry.^{(I) 6} Because of these, God’s wrath^(J) comes on the disobedient,^{[c] 7} and you once walked in these things when you were living^(K) in them. ⁸ But now you must also put away^(L) all the following: anger,^(M) wrath,^(N) malice,^(O) slander,^(P) and filthy language from your mouth.^{(Q) 9} Do not lie^(R) to one another, since you have put off^(S) the old self^[d](T) with its practices ¹⁰ and have put on^(U) the new self. You are being renewed in knowledge according to the image of your^[e] Creator.^{(V) 11} In Christ^[f] there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian,^[g] slave and free; but Christ is all and in all.^(W)