1 If then you are risen with
Christ, seek the things, that
are above, where Christ sits
at the right hand of God.
2 let
the things above, and not
such worldly matters be the
object of your thoughts.
3 for
you are dead to them, and
Christ has secured your life
with God. note
4 Christ is your
life, and when he shall appear,
then shall you also appear
with him in glory.
5 Mortify therefore your sensual
appetites, fornication,
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impurity, irregular passions,
wicked desires, and that licentiousness
practised by idolaters.
6 these are vices which draw
down the divine vengeance upon
unbelieving nations;
7 among
whom you had your conversation,
when you followed their
practices.
8 but now renounce
them all, as well as anger, animosity,
malice: let calumny
and obscene discourse be banish'd
from your lips.
9 let there
be no fraud among you, since
you have discarded your
former habits and practices,
and are become new men,
10 improv'd
by knowledge into a resemblance
of him, who made
this change:
11 by which there is
now neither Greek, or Jew;
circumcised, or uncircumcised;
Barbarian, or Scythian; slave,
or freeman; but Christ is all,
and in all.
12 be you therefore
adorn'd with a compassionate
temper, with benevolence, humility,
meekness, patience as
becometh saints and chosen favourites
of God:
13 bearing with
one another, and forgiving one
another, when one has any
cause of complaint against another:
as the Lord forgave
you, do you likewise forgive.
14 to
all this add love, which is the
band of perfect union:
15 may the
peace of Christ, to which you
are called to be but one body,
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influence your hearts, to be benevolent.
16 Let the christian doctrine
be the familiar subject of your
entertainment: in all wisdom
instructing and exhorting one
another, in psalms and hymns
and spiritual songs, melodiously
tuning your grateful
praises to God.
17 let your discourse
and your actions be all
in the name of the Lord Jesus,
giving thanks to God the father
by him.
18 Dames, be submissive to
your husbands, as becomes
christians.
19 husbands, love your
wives, and do not exasperate
them.
20 children, obey your parents
upon all occasions, for
that is graceful in a christian.
21 fathers, don't treat your children
with severity, lest they
be discourag'd.
22 servants, be
entirely obedient to those,
whom the laws have made your
masters, and not meerly out of
regard to their observation, as
designing only to please men,
but from a principle of integrity,
as fearing God:
23 and whatever
you do, do it heartily, as
serving the Lord, and not men:
24 knowing that as you are the servants
of Christ our Lord, you
shall receive from him the inheritance
for your reward.
25 but
he that does wrong shall be punish'd
for his injustice: for no
regard will be shown to the
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external characters of men.
Mace [1729], THE NEW TESTAMENT IN Greek and English. Containing the ORIGINAL TEXT Corrected from the Authority of the most Authentic Manuscripts: AND A NEW VERSION Form'd agreeably to the Illustrations of the most Learned Commentators and Critics: WITH NOTES and VARIOUS READINGS, AND A Copious Alphabetical Index (Printed for J. ROBERTS [etc.], LONDON) [word count] [B11200].