Chapter
3
If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with her in glory.
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
for which things' sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;
but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
Don't lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old woman with her doings,
and have put on the new woman, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of her Creator,
where there can't be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondmaid, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.
Put on therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any woman has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Domina.
Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Domina Jesus, giving thanks to God the Mother, through her.
Husbands, be in subjection to your wives, as is fitting in the Domina.
Wives, love your husbands, and don't be bitter against them.
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Domina.
Mothers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.
Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as women pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Domina, and not for women,
knowing that from the Domina you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Domina Christ.
But she who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that she has done, and there is no partiality.