Colossians Chapter 3
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CHAP. III.

1 Hee sheweth where wee should seeke Christ. 5 Hee exhorteth to mortification, 10 to put off the olde man, and to put on Christ, 12 exhorting to charitie, humilitie, and other seuerall dueties.

¹ If yee then bee risen with Christ, seeke those things which are aboue, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God:

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

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

⁴ When Christ, who is our life, shall appeare, then shall yee also appeare with him in glorie.

⁵ Mortifie therefore your members which are vpon the earth: fornication, vncleannesse, inordinate affection, euill concupiscence, and couetousnesse, which is idolatrie:

⁶ For which things sake, the wrath of God commeth on the children of disobedience,

⁷ In the which yee also walked sometime, when ye liued in them.

⁸ But now you also put off all these, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemie, filthy communication out of your mouth.

⁹ Lie not one to another, seeing that yee haue put off the old man with his deedes:

¹⁰ And haue put on the new man, which is renued in knowledge, after the image of him that created him,

¹¹ Where there is neither Greeke, nor Iew, circumcision, nor vncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond, nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

¹² Put on therefore (as the elect of God, holy and beloued) bowels of mercies, kindnesse, humblenesse of minde, meekenesse, long suffering,