Among the sons of the disobedience, when you lived by the limbs that are on the earth

The astounding, liberating, knowledge-giving text of The Letter to the Colossians, chapter 3 (vv.1-10), in the Christ Family Bible translation:

1  If, therefore, you were raised with the Christ, seek the things above, where the Christ is, sitting by the right hand of the God. 
2  Mind the things above, not the things upon the earth. 
3  For you have died, and the life of yours is hidden together with the Christ, by the God. 
4  Whensoever the Christ is revealed—the life of ours—then also you together with Him will be revealed in glory. 
5  Mortify, therefore, the limbs that are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, passion, bad yearning, and the greediness (which is idolatry), 
6  because of which things the wrath of the God comes upon the sons of the disobedience, 
7  among whom also you once walked, when you lived by these things. 
8  Now, though, put away—also you—all of them; wrath, soulish feeling, evil, abusive speech, shameful language from the mouth of yours;
9  do not lie to each other; you having stripped off the old human being together with his practices, 
10  and having put on the new who is being renewed unto recognition according to the image of the creator of him, where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but where instead the all are also by all things Christ.

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