### Douay Rheims Bible

Colossians 2

## The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Colossians

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| # Chapter 3
#### 1 | Therefore, if you be risen with Christ, seek the things that are above; where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God:
#### 2 | Mind the things that are above, not the things that are upon the earth.
#### 3 | For you are dead; and your life is hid with Christ in God.
#### 4 | When Christ shall appear, who is your life, then you also shall appear with him in glory.
#### 5 | Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is the service of idols.
#### 6 | For which things the wrath of God cometh upon the children of unbelief,
#### 7 | In which you also walked some time, when you lived in them.
#### 8 | But now put you also all away: anger, indignation, malice, blasphemy, filthy speech out of your mouth.
#### 9 | Lie not one to another: stripping yourselves of the old man with his deeds,
#### 10 | And putting on the new, him who is renewed unto knowledge, according to the image of him that created him.
#### 11 | Where there is neither Gentile nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian nor Scythian, bond nor free. But Christ is all, and in all.
#### 12 | Put ye on therefore, as the elect of God, holy, and beloved, the bowels of mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, patience:
#### 13 | Bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if any have a complaint against another: even as the Lord hath forgiven you, so do you also.
#### 14 | But above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection:
#### 15 | And let the peace of Christ rejoice in your hearts, wherein also you are called in one body: and be ye thankful.
#### 16 | Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly, in all wisdom: teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing in grace in your hearts to God.
#### 17 | All whatsoever you do in word or in work, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
#### 18 | Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it behoveth in the Lord.
#### 19 | Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter towards them.
#### 20 | Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing to the Lord.
#### 21 | Fathers, provoke not your children to indignation, lest they be discouraged.
#### 22 | Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not serving to the eye, as pleasing men, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God.
#### 23 | Whatsoever you do, do it from the heart, as to the Lord, and not to men:
#### 24 | Knowing that you shall receive of the Lord the reward of inheritance. Serve ye the Lord Christ.
#### 25 | For he that doth wrong, shall receive for that which he hath done wrongfully: and there is no respect of persons with God.

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