Study Desk

Make dead, therefore, your members that are on the earth - as regardeth fornication, impurity, passion, base coveting, and greed, the which, is idolatry, -

On account of which things cometh the anger of God, -

Wherein, ye also, walked, at one time, when ye were living in these things;

But, now, do, ye also, put them all away, - anger, wrath, baseness, defamation, shameful talk out of your mouth:

Be not guilty of falsehood one to another: having stript off the old man, together with his practices,

And having put on the new - who is being moulded afresh unto personal knowledge, after the image of him that hath created him, -

Wherein there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, bond, free, - but, all things and in all, Christ:

Put on, therefore, as men chosen of God, holy and beloved, tender affections of compassion, graciousness, lowliness of mind, meekness, long-suffering,

Bearing one with another, and in favour forgiving one another - if any, against any, have a complaint, - according as, the Lord, in favour forgave you, so also ye;

And, over all these things, love, which is a uniting-bond of completeness;

And let, the peace of Christ, act as umpire in your hearts, unto which ye have been called in onebody, and be thankful: