{
    "translation": "Douay Rheims",
    "abbreviation": "douayrheims",
    "lang": "en",
    "language": "English",
    "direction": "LTR",
    "encoding": "",
    "book_nr": 51,
    "book_name": "Colossians",
    "chapter": 3,
    "name": "Colossians 3",
    "verses": [
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 1,
            "name": "Colossians 3:1",
            "text": "Therefore if you be risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 2,
            "name": "Colossians 3:2",
            "text": "Mind the things that are above, not the things that are upon the earth."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 3,
            "name": "Colossians 3:3",
            "text": "For you are dead: and your life is hid with Christ in God."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 4,
            "name": "Colossians 3:4",
            "text": "When Christ shall appear, who is your life, then you also shall appear with him in glory."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 5,
            "name": "Colossians 3:5",
            "text": "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is the service of idols."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 6,
            "name": "Colossians 3:6",
            "text": "For which things the wrath of God cometh upon the children of unbelief."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 7,
            "name": "Colossians 3:7",
            "text": "In which you also walked some time, when you lived in them."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 8,
            "name": "Colossians 3:8",
            "text": "But now put you also all away: anger, indignation, malice, blasphemy, filthy speech out of your mouth."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 9,
            "name": "Colossians 3:9",
            "text": "Lie not one to another: stripping yourselves of the old man with his deeds,"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 10,
            "name": "Colossians 3:10",
            "text": "And putting on the new, him who is renewed unto knowledge, according to the image of him that created him."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 11,
            "name": "Colossians 3:11",
            "text": "Where there is neither Gentile nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian nor Scythian, bond nor free. But Christ is all and in all."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 12,
            "name": "Colossians 3:12",
            "text": "Put ye on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, the bowels of mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, patience:"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 13,
            "name": "Colossians 3:13",
            "text": "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."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 14,
            "name": "Colossians 3:14",
            "text": "But above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 15,
            "name": "Colossians 3:15",
            "text": "And let the peace of Christ rejoice in your hearts, wherein also you are called in one body: and be ye thankful."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 16,
            "name": "Colossians 3:16",
            "text": "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."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 17,
            "name": "Colossians 3:17",
            "text": "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."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 18,
            "name": "Colossians 3:18",
            "text": "Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it behoveth in the Lord."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 19,
            "name": "Colossians 3:19",
            "text": "Husbands, love your wives and be not bitter towards them."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 20,
            "name": "Colossians 3:20",
            "text": "Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing to the Lord."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 21,
            "name": "Colossians 3:21",
            "text": "Fathers, provoke not your children to indignation, lest they be discouraged."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 22,
            "name": "Colossians 3:22",
            "text": "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."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 23,
            "name": "Colossians 3:23",
            "text": "Whatsoever you do, do it from the heart, as to the Lord, and not to men:"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 24,
            "name": "Colossians 3:24",
            "text": "Knowing that you shall receive of the Lord the reward of inheritance. Serve ye the Lord Christ."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 25,
            "name": "Colossians 3:25",
            "text": "For he that doth wrong shall receive for that which he hath done wrongfully. And there is no respect of persons with God. "
        }
    ]
}