[1] So it comes down to this: since you have been raised with the Anointed One, the Liberating King, set your mind on heaven above. The Anointed is there, seated at God's right hand. [2] Stay focused on what's above, not on earthly things, [3] because your old life is dead and gone. Your new life is now hidden, enmeshed with the Anointed who is in God. [4] On that day when the Anointed One-who is our very life-is revealed, you will be revealed with Him in glory! [5] So kill your earthly impulses: loose sex, impure actions, unbridled sensuality, wicked thoughts, and greed (which is essentially idolatry). [6] It's because of these that God's wrath is coming [upon the sons and daughters of disobedience], so avoid them at all costs. [7] These are the same things you once pursued, and together you spawned a life of evil. [8] But now make sure you shed such things: anger, rage, spite, slander, and abusive language. [9] And don't go on lying to each other since you have sloughed away your old skin along with its evil practices [10] for a fresh new you, which is continually renewed in knowledge according to the image of the One who created you. [11] In this re-creation there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian and conqueror, or slave and free because the Anointed is the whole and dwells in us all.
