He exhorts them to put off the old man, and to put on the new. The
duties of wives and husbands, children and servants.
3:1. Therefore if you be risen with Christ, seek the things that are
above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God.
3:2. Mind the things that are above, not the things that are upon the
earth.
3:3. For you are dead: and your life is hid with Christ in God.
3:4. When Christ shall appear, who is your life, then you also shall
appear with him in glory.
3:5. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth:
fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence and covetousness,
which is the service of idols.
3:6. For which things the wrath of God cometh upon the children of
unbelief.
3:7. In which you also walked some time, when you lived in them.
3:8. But now put you also all away: anger, indignation, malice,
blasphemy, filthy speech out of your mouth.
3:9. Lie not one to another: stripping yourselves of the old man with
his deeds,
3:10. And putting on the new, him who is renewed unto knowledge,
according to the image of him that created him.
3:11. Where there is neither Gentile nor Jew, circumcision nor
uncircumcision, Barbarian nor Scythian, bond nor free. But Christ is all
and in all.
3:12. Put ye on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, the
bowels of mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, patience:
3:13. Bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if any have a
complaint against another. Even as the Lord hath forgiven you, so do you
also.
3:14. But above all these things have charity, which is the bond of
perfection.
3:15. And let the peace of Christ rejoice in your hearts, wherein also
you are called in one body: and be ye thankful.
3:16. Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly: in all wisdom,
teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual
canticles, singing in grace in your hearts to God.
3:17. All whatsoever you do in word or in work, do all in the name of
the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
3:18. Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it behoveth in the Lord.
3:19. Husbands, love your wives and be not bitter towards them.
3:20. Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well
pleasing to the Lord.
3:21. Fathers, provoke not your children to indignation, lest they be
discouraged.
3:22. Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh:
not serving to the eye, as pleasing men: but in simplicity of heart,
fearing God.
3:23. Whatsoever you do, do it from the heart, as to the Lord, and not
to men:
3:24. Knowing that you shall receive of the Lord the reward of
inheritance. Serve ye the Lord Christ.
3:25. For he that doth wrong shall receive for that which he hath done
wrongfully. And there is no respect of persons with God.