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Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.
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For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
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When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
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Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
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Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience,
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in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.
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But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.
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Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds,
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and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,
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where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all.
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Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;