Putting Off the Earthly Vices

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Therefore, put to death the earthly parts of your nature — sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed (which is a form of idolatry);

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for it is because of these things that God’s anger is coming on those who disobey him.

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True enough, you used to practice these things in the life you once lived;

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but now, put them all away — anger, exasperation, meanness, slander and obscene talk.

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Never lie to one another; because you have stripped away the old self, with its ways,

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and have put on the new self, which is continually being renewed in fuller and fuller knowledge, closer and closer to the image of its Creator.

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The new self allows no room for discriminating between Gentile and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, foreigner, savage, slave, free man; on the contrary, in all, the Messiah is everything.

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