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    "chapter": 3
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "COL-3:1",
        "verseRef": "COL.3.1",
        "text": "If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "COL-3:2",
        "verseRef": "COL.3.2",
        "text": "Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "COL-3:3",
        "verseRef": "COL.3.3",
        "text": "For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "COL-3:4",
        "verseRef": "COL.3.4",
        "text": "When Christ, [who is] our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "COL-3:5",
        "verseRef": "COL.3.5",
        "text": "Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "COL-3:6",
        "verseRef": "COL.3.6",
        "text": "for which things` sake cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience:"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "COL-3:7",
        "verseRef": "COL.3.7",
        "text": "wherein ye also once walked, when ye lived in these things;"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "COL-3:8",
        "verseRef": "COL.3.8",
        "text": "but now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth:"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "COL-3:9",
        "verseRef": "COL.3.9",
        "text": "lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings,"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "COL-3:10",
        "verseRef": "COL.3.10",
        "text": "and have put on the new man, that is being renewed unto knowledge after the image of him that created him:"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "COL-3:11",
        "verseRef": "COL.3.11",
        "text": "where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "COL-3:12",
        "verseRef": "COL.3.12",
        "text": "Put on therefore, as God`s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "COL-3:13",
        "verseRef": "COL.3.13",
        "text": "forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye:"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "COL-3:14",
        "verseRef": "COL.3.14",
        "text": "and above all these things [put on] love, which is the bond of perfectness."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "COL-3:15",
        "verseRef": "COL.3.15",
        "text": "And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to the which also ye were called in one body; and be ye thankful."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "COL-3:16",
        "verseRef": "COL.3.16",
        "text": "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms [and] hymns [and] spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "COL-3:17",
        "verseRef": "COL.3.17",
        "text": "And whatsoever ye do, in word or in deed, [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "COL-3:18",
        "verseRef": "COL.3.18",
        "text": "Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "COL-3:19",
        "verseRef": "COL.3.19",
        "text": "Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "COL-3:20",
        "verseRef": "COL.3.20",
        "text": "Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "COL-3:21",
        "verseRef": "COL.3.21",
        "text": "Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "COL-3:22",
        "verseRef": "COL.3.22",
        "text": "Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord:"
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "COL-3:23",
        "verseRef": "COL.3.23",
        "text": "whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men;"
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "COL-3:24",
        "verseRef": "COL.3.24",
        "text": "knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance: ye serve the Lord Christ."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "COL-3:25",
        "verseRef": "COL.3.25",
        "text": "For he that doeth wrong shall receive again for the wrong that he hath done: and there is no respect of persons."
      }
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