Twentieth_Century(i)
1 Since, therefore, you were raised to Life with the Christ, seek for the things that are above; for it is there that the Christ is 'seated at the right hand of God.'
2 Fix your thoughts upon the things that are above, not upon those that are on earth.
3 For you died, and your Life now lies hidden, with the Christ, in God.
4 When the Christ, who is our Life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
5 Therefore destroy all that is earthly in you--immorality, uncleanness, passions, evil desires, and that greed which is idolatry.
6 These are the things on account of which the Wrath of God comes,
7 And to which you, like others, once devoted your lives, when you lived for them.
8 You, however, must now lay aside all such things--anger, passion, malice, slander, abuse.
9 Never lie to one another. Get rid of your old self and its habits,
10 And clothe yourselves with that new self, which, as it gains in knowledge, is being constantly renewed 'in resemblance to him who made it.'