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The Book of Colossians, Chapter 3, Verse 2

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Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
King James Version
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
American Standard Version
For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
New English Translation
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.
World English Bible
Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
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When Christ, [who is] our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
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Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
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For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
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In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
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But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
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Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
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And have put on the new [man], which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
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Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond [nor] free: but Christ [is] all, and in all.
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Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
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Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye.