Col 3:1. Because I am risen with Christ, I seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God.

Col 3:2. I set my attention on things above, not on things on the earth.

Col 3:3. For I am dead and my life is hidden with Christ in God.

Col 3:4. When Christ, who is my Life, shall appear, then shall I also appear with Him in glory.

Col 3:5. For this reason, I mortify, put to death and deprive of power my members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Col 3:6. Because I am in Christ, these things remain mortified in me and I will not be visited by God’s wrath as the children of disobedience are.

Col 3:7. There was a time I walked in these fleshly desires but now that I’m in Christ, I am a new creation, old things are passed away and all things have become new (2 Cor. 5:17).

Col 3:8. I also put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy and filthy communication out of my mouth.

Col 3:9. I will not lie to others, seeing that I have put off the old man with its deeds,

Col 3:10. and I have put on the New Man which is renewed in knowledge according to the image of God that created him.

Col 3:11. In Christ, there is neither Greek nor Jew, the circumcised nor the uncircumcised, the Barbarian, the Scythian, the enslaved nor the free: because Christ is all and He is in all. For this reason, I will not consider members of the Body of Christ according to their races, statuses, past and present conditions, or any discriminative factor because Christ is all I need to consider and this Christ is in us all.

Col 3:12-13. Therefore as the elect of God, holy and beloved, I put on bowels of mercies, kindness, humility of mind, meekness, and longsuffering.

Col 3:13. I forbear with others, and I freely forgive those that offend me, and if I have any quarrel or complaint against anyone or if anyone has any quarrel or complaint against me, I forgive them as Christ also forgave me.

Col 3:14. But above all these things, I put on love, which is the bond of perfection.

Col 3:15. I allow the peace of God to rule in my heart, because I was called into this when I became part of the Body of Christ. And I also stay thankful.

Col 3:16. I allow the word of Christ to dwell in me richly in all wisdom; I teach and admonish myself and others in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, and I sing with grace in my heart to the Lord.

Col 3:17. And whatever I do in word or in deed, I do all in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and I give thanks to God the Father through Him.

Col 3:18. My wife submits to me, her husband, as is fitting in the Lord.

Col 3:19. As a husband, I love my wife and I am not bitter toward her.

Col 3:20. Our children obey us, their parents in all things, for this is well pleasing to the Lord, and they please the Lord all the days of their lives.

Col 3:21. As parents, my wife and I do not provoke our children, and they do not become discouraged; they see our example and they are encouraged; therefore they serve the Lord all their days.

Col 3:22. As someone under authority, I obey in all things, those in authority over me. I do not obey them with eyeservice as a man-pleaser, but I obey them with sincerity of heart and with the fear of God.

Col 3:23. And whatever I do, I do it heartily as to the Lord and not to men; 

Col 3:24. for I know that I will receive from the Lord the reward of the inheritance, for I serve the Lord Christ.

Col 3:25. I will not be repaid with any wrong or evil for I do no wrong nor evil.