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.