1. If then you were raised together with Messiah, seek the things that are above, where Messiah is, seated on the right hand of God.
2. Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
3. For you died, and your life is hidden with Messiah in God.
4. When Messiah, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
5. Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
6. for which things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
7. You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;
8. but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
9. Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
10. and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,