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Colossians 3

Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner revision (1749–1752), the traditional Catholic English Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate. If you read a modern Bible, this is the same Scripture in older English; some names are spelled differently (Cesarea for Caesarea, Apocalypse for Revelation). About this translation

1 Therefore if you be risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. CCC

2 Mind the things that are above, not the things that are upon the earth. CCC

3 For you are dead: and your life is hid with Christ in God. CCC

4 When Christ shall appear, who is your life, then you also shall appear with him in glory. CCC

5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is the service of idols. CCC · Fathers

6 For which things the wrath of God cometh upon the children of unbelief. CCC

7 In which you also walked some time, when you lived in them. CCC

8 But now put you also all away: anger, indignation, malice, blasphemy, filthy speech out of your mouth. CCC

9 Lie not one to another: stripping yourselves of the old man with his deeds, Fathers

10 And putting on the new, him who is renewed unto knowledge, according to the image of him that created him. CCC · Fathers

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. CCC

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. CCC

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. CCC

18 Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it behoveth in the Lord. CCC

19 Husbands, love your wives and be not bitter towards them. CCC

20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing to the Lord. CCC

21 Fathers, provoke not your children to indignation, lest they be discouraged. CCC

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.

This chapter in the Catechism and the early Church

Where the Catechism of the Catholic Church cites these verses (from its footnotes on vatican.va), and where the earliest Church Fathers quote them (Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, public domain). Short quotes only; follow the links for the full text.

  1. Verse 1CCC 655 CCC 1002
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    • CCC 655 “Finally, Christ's Resurrection - and the risen Christ himself is the principle and source of our future resurrection: "Christ has been raised…”
    • CCC 1002 “Christ will raise us up "on the last day"; but it is also true that, in a certain way, we have already…”
  2. Verse 2CCC 655
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    • CCC 655 “Finally, Christ's Resurrection - and the risen Christ himself is the principle and source of our future resurrection: "Christ has been raised…”
  3. Verse 3CCC 655 CCC 1003 CCC 1420 CCC 2796
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    • CCC 655 “Finally, Christ's Resurrection - and the risen Christ himself is the principle and source of our future resurrection: "Christ has been raised…”
    • CCC 1003 “United with Christ by Baptism, believers already truly participate in the heavenly life of the risen Christ, but this life remains "hidden…”
    • CCC 1420 “Through the sacraments of Christian initiation, man receives the new life of Christ. Now we carry this life "in earthen vessels," and…”
    • CCC 2796 “When the Church prays "our Father who art in heaven," she is professing that we are the People of God, already seated…”
  4. Verse 4CCC 1003 CCC 2772
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    • CCC 1003 “United with Christ by Baptism, believers already truly participate in the heavenly life of the risen Christ, but this life remains "hidden…”
    • CCC 2772 “From this unshakeable faith springs forth the hope that sustains each of the seven petitions, which express the groanings of the present…”
  5. Verse 5CCC 1852 CCC 2518
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    • CCC 1852 “There are a great many kinds of sins. Scripture provides several lists of them. the Letter to the Galatians contrasts the works…”
    • CCC 2518 “The sixth beatitude proclaims, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." "Pure in heart" refers to those who…”

    • “… of the flesh, and receiving the Holy Spirit; as the apostle says in the Epistle to the Colossians: "Mortify, therefore, your members which are upon the earth." And what these are he himself explains: "Fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence; and covetousness, which is idolatry.”

      Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1

  6. Verse 6CCC 1852
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    • CCC 1852 “There are a great many kinds of sins. Scripture provides several lists of them. the Letter to the Galatians contrasts the works…”
  7. Verse 7CCC 1852
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    • CCC 1852 “There are a great many kinds of sins. Scripture provides several lists of them. the Letter to the Galatians contrasts the works…”
  8. Verse 8CCC 1852
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    • CCC 1852 “There are a great many kinds of sins. Scripture provides several lists of them. the Letter to the Galatians contrasts the works…”
  9. Verse 9
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    • “… worse, and descending to earthly lusts, has become a partaker in the same designation which belongs to these [lusts, viz., "earthly"], which, when the apostle commands us to lay aside, he says in the same Epistle, "Cast ye off the old man with his deeds.”

      Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1

  10. Verse 10CCC 2809
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    • CCC 2809 “The holiness of God is the inaccessible center of his eternal mystery. What is revealed of it in creation and history, Scripture…”

    • “If then [he says], "To live in the flesh, this is the result of labour to me," he did not surely contemn the substance of flesh in that passage where he said, "Put ye off the old man with his works;”

      Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1

  11. Verse 14CCC 815 CCC 1827
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    • CCC 815 “What are these bonds of unity? Above all, charity "binds everything together in perfect harmony." But the unity of the pilgrim Church…”
    • CCC 1827 “The practice of all the virtues is animated and inspired by charity, which "binds everything together in perfect harmony"; it is the…”
  12. Verse 16CCC 1156 CCC 2633 CCC 2641 CCC 79
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    • CCC 1156 “The musical tradition of the universal Church is a treasure of inestimable value, greater even than that of any other art. the…”
    • CCC 2633 “When we share in God's saving love, we understand that every need can become the object of petition. Christ, who assumed all…”
    • CCC 2641 “[Address] one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with all your heart." Like…”
    • CCC 79 “The Father's self-communication made through his Word in the Holy Spirit, remains present and active in the Church: "God, who spoke in…”
  13. Verse 17CCC 2633
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    • CCC 2633 “When we share in God's saving love, we understand that every need can become the object of petition. Christ, who assumed all…”
  14. Verse 18CCC 2204
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    • CCC 2204 “The Christian family constitutes a specific revelation and realization of ecclesial communion, and for this reason it can and should be called…”
  15. Verse 19CCC 2204
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    • CCC 2204 “The Christian family constitutes a specific revelation and realization of ecclesial communion, and for this reason it can and should be called…”
  16. Verse 20CCC 2204 CCC 2217
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    • CCC 2204 “The Christian family constitutes a specific revelation and realization of ecclesial communion, and for this reason it can and should be called…”
    • CCC 2217 “As long as a child lives at home with his parents, the child should obey his parents in all that they ask…”
  17. Verse 21CCC 2204
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    • CCC 2204 “The Christian family constitutes a specific revelation and realization of ecclesial communion, and for this reason it can and should be called…”
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