The secret which has been kept from all times and generations, but has now been made clear to his saints,

Having been put to death with him in baptism, by which you came to life again with him, through faith in the working of God, who made him come back from the dead.

Having put an end to the handwriting of the law which was against us, taking it out of the way by nailing it to his cross;

Having made himself free from the rule of authorities and powers, he put them openly to shame, glorying over them in it.

For these are an image of the things which are to come; but the body is Christ's.

If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;

But now it is right for you to put away all these things; wrath, passion, bad feeling, curses, unclean talk;

Do not make false statements to one another; because you have put away the old man with all his doings,

And have put on the new man, which has become new in knowledge after the image of his maker;

Where there is no Greek or Jew, no one with circumcision or without circumcision, no division between nations, no servant or free man: but Christ is all and in all.

Servants, in all things do the orders of your natural masters; not only when their eyes are on you, as pleasers of men, but with all your heart, fearing the Lord: