Colossians 02:20–03:14

Colossians 02:20–03:143 matched frames

Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.

A 20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
- B 21-22 (Touch not; taste not; handle not; 22 Which all are to perish with the using;)
  - C after the commandments and doctrines of men?
- B' 23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
A' 1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
A 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
- B 3 For ye are dead,
  - C and your life is hid with Christ in God.
  - C' 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear,
- B' then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
A' 5-7 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: 7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
A 8-9 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. 9 Lie not one to another,
- B seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
- B' 10-11 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: 11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
A' 12-14 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; 13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. 14 And above all these things [put on] charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

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