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so God is not ashamed to be called their God:
for He has prepared for them a city.
9 If you then be raised with Christ, seek those
things above, where Christ sits on the right
hand of God. Set your affection on things
above, not on things on the earth. For you
are dead, and your life is hidden with Christ in
God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear,
then you shall also appear with him in glory.
Put to death your old nature which is of the
earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate
affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which
is idolatry: for which things' sake the wrath of
God comes on children of disobedience: in
which you also walked and lived some time.
But now also put off all these: anger, wrath,
malice, blasphemy, and filthy communication
out of your mouth. Do not lie to another,
seeing that you have put off the old nature
with its deeds and have put on the new
nature, which is renewed in knowledge after
the image of him that created him: where
there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor
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