Thematic Bible
Colossians 3:1 (show verse)
If then you are risen with Christ, seek the things, that are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God.
Colossians 3:2 (show verse)
let the things above, and not such worldly matters be the object of your thoughts.
Colossians 3:3 (show verse)
for you are dead to them, and Christ has secured your life with God.
Colossians 3:4 (show verse)
Christ is your life, and when he shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory.
Colossians 3:5 (show verse)
Mortify therefore your sensual appetites, fornication, impurity, irregular passions, wicked desires, and that licentiousness practised by idolaters.
Colossians 3:6 (show verse)
these are vices which draw down the divine vengeance upon unbelieving nations;
Colossians 3:7 (show verse)
among whom you had your conversation, when you followed their practices.
Colossians 3:8 (show verse)
but now renounce them all, as well as anger, animosity, malice: let calumny and obscene discourse be banish'd from your lips.
Colossians 3:9 (show verse)
let there be no fraud among you, since you have discarded your former habits and practices, and are become new men,
Colossians 3:10 (show verse)
improv'd by knowledge into a resemblance of him, who made this change:
Colossians 3:11 (show verse)
by which there is now neither Greek, or Jew; circumcised, or uncircumcised; Barbarian, or Scythian; slave, or freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.
Colossians 3:12 (show verse)
be you therefore adorn'd with a compassionate temper, with benevolence, humility, meekness, patience as becometh saints and chosen favourites of God:
Colossians 3:13 (show verse)
bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, when one has any cause of complaint against another: as the Lord forgave you, do you likewise forgive.
Colossians 3:14 (show verse)
to all this add love, which is the band of perfect union:
Colossians 3:15 (show verse)
may the peace of Christ, to which you are called to be but one body, influence your hearts, to be benevolent.
Colossians 3:16 (show verse)
Let the christian doctrine be the familiar subject of your entertainment: in all wisdom instructing and exhorting one another, in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, melodiously tuning your grateful praises to God.
Colossians 3:17 (show verse)
let your discourse and your actions be all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the father by him.
Colossians 3:18 (show verse)
Dames, be submissive to your husbands, as becomes christians.
Colossians 3:19 (show verse)
husbands, love your wives, and do not exasperate them.
Colossians 3:20 (show verse)
children, obey your parents upon all occasions, for that is graceful in a christian.
Colossians 3:21 (show verse)
fathers, don't treat your children with severity, lest they be discourag'd.
Colossians 3:22 (show verse)
servants, be entirely obedient to those, whom the laws have made your masters, and not meerly out of regard to their observation, as designing only to please men, but from a principle of integrity, as fearing God:
Colossians 3:23 (show verse)
and whatever you do, do it heartily, as serving the Lord, and not men:
Colossians 3:24 (show verse)
knowing that as you are the servants of Christ our Lord, you shall receive from him the inheritance for your reward.
Colossians 3:25 (show verse)
but he that does wrong shall be punish'd for his injustice: for no regard will be shown to the external characters of men.