Colossians 3:1-17 - Jon B

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Colossians 3:1–17 (ESV)
Colossians 3:1 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 
Colossians 3:2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 
Colossians 3:3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 
Colossians 3:4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. 
Colossians 3:5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 
Colossians 3:6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming. 
Colossians 3:7 In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. 
Colossians 3:8 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 
Colossians 3:9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices
Colossians 3:10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. 
Colossians 3:11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. 
Colossians 3:12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 
Colossians 3:13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 
Colossians 3:14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 
Colossians 3:15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. 
Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 
Colossians 3:17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Colossians 1:1-14 - Jon B

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Colossians 1:1–14 (ESV)
Colossians 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, 
Colossians 1:2 To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. 
Colossians 1:3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 
Colossians 1:4 since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, 
Colossians 1:5 because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, 
Colossians 1:6 which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth, 
Colossians 1:7 just as you learned it from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf
Colossians 1:8 and has made known to us your love in the Spirit. 
Colossians 1:9 And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 
Colossians 1:10 so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. 
Colossians 1:11 May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, 
Colossians 1:12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. 
Colossians 1:13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, 
Colossians 1:14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.