21  yourselves  to   ordinances,     "Handle   not,    nor  taste,  nor
22) touch   "(all  which  things  are  to   perish  with  the  using),
23  after  the  precepts  and  doctrines  of  men  ?     "Which  things
have  indeed  a  show  of  wisdom  in  will-worship,  and  humil-
ity, and  severity  to  the  body;  but  are  not  of  any  ^ value
against  the  indulgence  of  the  flesh.
3  ij      If  then  ye  were  raised  together  with  Christ,  seek  the
things  that  are  above,  where  Christ  is,  seated  on  the  right

2  hand  of  God.     "Set  your  mind  on   the   things  that  are

3  above,  not  on  the  things  that  are  upon  the  earth.     "For
4) ye  died,  and  your  life  is  hid  with  Christ  in  God.     "When

Christ,  who  is  ^our  life,  shall  be  manifested,  then  shall  ye

also  with  him  be  manifested  in  glory.
5      ^Mortify  therefore  your  members  which  are  upon  the

earth  ;  fornication,  uncleanness,  passion,  evil  desire,  and
6)COvetousness,    the   which   is  idolatry;   "for  which   things'

sake  cometh  the  wrath  of  God  ^upon  the  sons  of  disobedi-
7  ence  ;  "^in  the  which  ye  also  walked  aforetime,  when  ye
8)  lived   in  these  things.      "But  now  put  ye  also  away  all

these  ;  anger,  wrath,   malice,  railing,   shameful  speaking

9  out  of  your  mouth  :  "lie  not  one  to  another  ;  seeing  that

10  ye  have  put  off  the  old  man  with  his  doings,  "and  have

put  on  the  new  man,  which  is  being  renewed  unto  knowl-
(II  edge   after  the   image  of  him   that  created  him:  "where

there  cannot  be  Greek  and  Jew,  circumcision  and  uncir-

cumcision,   barbarian,   Scythian,  bondman,   freeman  :  but

Christ  is  all,  and  in  all.
