The life of believers is in heaven
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📚If then you have been raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God. 2 📚Set your affection on things above, not on things of the earth. 3 📚For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 📚When Christ, who is our life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Putting sinful desires and deeds to death
5 📚Therefore put to death your members which are upon the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, bad passion, evil cravings, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 📚Because of these things the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
The way believers formerly lived, the way they should now live
7 📚Once you also spent your life in these things, when you lived in them. 8 📚But now you must also put off all these: anger, rage, malice, blasphemy, filthy language from your mouth. 9 📚Do not lie to each other, since you have put off the old man with his deeds 10 📚and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator, 11 📚where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian nor Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all, and in all.
12 📚Therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with tender mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness and patience. 13 📚Bear with one another, and forgive one another, if anyone has a quarrel against another. Just as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. 14 📚And above all these things clothe yourselves with love, which is the perfect bond.
15 📚And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, for you were called to this in one body. And be thankful. 16 📚Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
The proper aim of living
17 📚And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
The behavior of believers toward husbands, wives, children, servants
18 📚Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
19 📚Husbands, love your wives, and do not be bitter toward them.
20 📚Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord well.
21 📚Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they will not be discouraged.
22 📚Slaves, in everything obey those who are your masters according to the body, not serving because he is watching, not as pleasers of men, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God. 23 📚And whatever you do, do it heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men, 24 📚knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. For you serve the Lord Christ. 25 📚But he who does wrong will be repaid for the wrong he did, and there is no favoritism with God.