Colossians 3

Colossians 3:3

For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

It is not for you, to affect the things of the world: for ye are dead to the world, and to all the vain and sinful motions and desires thereof; but ye have already, and shall enjoy hereafter, another manner of life, which the world cannot see or discern; for it is hid and laid up with Christ, in God; as out of the knowledge, so out of the danger of the world.

Colossians 3:5

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, &c.

Mortify therefore all the limbs of your earthly and sinful corruptions; fornication, uncleanness, &c.

Colossians 3:9

Seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

Seeing that ye have put off your old depraved nature, with the sinful works thereof;

Colossians 3:10

And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

And are professed, that ye are become new men, renewed in knowledge and all holy disposition; after the image of God, who hath created this new heart in you:

Colossians 3:11

Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, &c.

In which business of renovation, there is no respect of persons at all, whether a man be a Jew or a Greek, &c. but every man is accepted, according to that measure wherein Christ his Saviour, and his Holy Spirit, dwells and works in him.

Colossians 3:12

Put on therefore as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering.

Contrary, therefore, to those limbs of your corruptions, take to yourselves, as it becomes the elect children of God, holy and beloved, all those graces of regeneration, which are meet for your Christian profession; tender-mercies, and compassion, kindness, &c.

Colossians 3:14

15. And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.

And, above all these, see that your hearts be filled with charity, which doth perfectly unite together all the members of this mystical body; and, by and in which, all other graces are perfected, for the use of God’s Church. And let that Christian peace, which God worketh in you, and which your holy profession calleth you to, by virtue of your union with the whole Church, rule and reign in your hearts.

Colossians 3:16

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms &c.

Let the doctrine of Christ be familiarly settled in your hearts, and make you rich in all wisdom; so as that ye may be able to teach and admonish one another; that ye may express the joy of your hearts in psalms &c.