3:1 所以你们若真与基督一同复活,就当求在上面的事;那里有基督坐在神的右边。
3:2 你们要思念上面的事,不要思念地上的事。
3:3 因为你们已经死了,你们的生命与基督一同藏在 神里面。
3:4 基督是我们的生命,他显现的时候,你们也要与他一同显现在荣耀里。
3:5 所以要治死你们在地上的肢体,就如淫乱、污秽、邪情、恶欲和贪婪,贪婪就与拜偶像一样。
3:6 因这些事, 神的忿怒必临到那悖逆之子。
3:7 当你们在这些事中活着的时候,也曾这样行过。
3:8 但现在你们要弃绝这一切的事,以及恼恨、忿怒、恶毒(注:或作“阴毒”)、毁谤,并口中污秽的言语。
3:9 不要彼此说谎,因你们已经脱去旧人和旧人的行为,
3:10 穿上了新人。这新人在知识上渐渐更新,正如造他主的形像。
1Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
2Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
3For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
4When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
5Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
6Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.
7You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.
8But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
9Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices
10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.