CHAP. III.
He exhorts them to put off
the old man, and to put
on the new. The duties
of wives and husbands,
children and servants.
1 Therefore, if
you be risen with Christ,
seek the things that are above;
where Christ is sitting at the
right hand of God:
2 Mind the things that are
above, not the things that are
on the earth.
3 For you are dead; and
your life is hid with Christ in
God.
4 When Christ shall appear,
who is your life; then
shall you also appear with him
in glory.
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5 Mortify therefore your
members which are upon the
earth; fornication, uncleanness,
lust, evil concupiscence, and
covetousness, which is the service
of idols:
6 For which things sake
the wrath of God cometh upon
the children of unbelief:
7 In which you also walked
some-time, when you lived
in them.
8 But now put you also
all away: anger, indignation,
malice, blasphemy, filthy
speech out of your mouth.
9 Lye not one to another:
stripping yourselves of the old
man with his deeds,
10 And putting on the
new, him who is renewed
unto knowledge, according to
the image of him that created
him.
11 Where there is neither
gentile nor Jew, circumcision
nor uncircumcision, Barbarian
nor Scythian, bond nor free:
but Christ is all, and in all.
12 Put ye on therefore, as
the elect of God, holy, and
beloved, the bowels of mercy,
benignity, humility, modesty,
patience:
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.
14 But above all these
things have charity, which is
the bond of perfection:
15 And let the peace of
Christ rejoice in your hearts,
wherein also you are called in
one body: and be ye thankful.
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.
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.
18 Wives, be subject to
your husbands, as it behoveth
in the Lord.
19 Husbands, love your
wives, and be not bitter towards
them.
20 Children, obey your parents
in all things: for this
is well-pleasing to the Lord.
21 Fathers, provoke not
your children to anger; lest
they be discouraged.
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.
23 Whatsoever you do, do
it from the heart, as to the
Lord, and not to men:
24 Knowing that you
shall receive of the Lord the
reward of inheritance. Serve
ye the Lord Christ.
25 For he that doth wrong,
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shall receive for that which
he hath done wrongfully:
and there is no respect of
persons with God.
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
