{
    "translation": "World English Bible",
    "abbreviation": "web",
    "lang": "en",
    "language": "English",
    "direction": "LTR",
    "encoding": "UTF-8",
    "book_nr": 51,
    "book_name": "Colossians",
    "chapter": 3,
    "name": "Colossians 3",
    "verses": [
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 1,
            "name": "Colossians 3:1",
            "text": "If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 2,
            "name": "Colossians 3:2",
            "text": "Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 3,
            "name": "Colossians 3:3",
            "text": "For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 4,
            "name": "Colossians 3:4",
            "text": "When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 5,
            "name": "Colossians 3:5",
            "text": "Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 6,
            "name": "Colossians 3:6",
            "text": "for which things\u2019 sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 7,
            "name": "Colossians 3:7",
            "text": "You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 8,
            "name": "Colossians 3:8",
            "text": "but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 9,
            "name": "Colossians 3:9",
            "text": "Don\u2019t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 10,
            "name": "Colossians 3:10",
            "text": "and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 11,
            "name": "Colossians 3:11",
            "text": "where there can\u2019t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.  "
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 12,
            "name": "Colossians 3:12",
            "text": "  Put on therefore, as God\u2019s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 13,
            "name": "Colossians 3:13",
            "text": "bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.  "
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 14,
            "name": "Colossians 3:14",
            "text": "  Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 15,
            "name": "Colossians 3:15",
            "text": "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 16,
            "name": "Colossians 3:16",
            "text": "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 Lord.  "
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 17,
            "name": "Colossians 3:17",
            "text": "  Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.  "
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 18,
            "name": "Colossians 3:18",
            "text": "  Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.  "
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 19,
            "name": "Colossians 3:19",
            "text": "  Husbands, love your wives, and don\u2019t be bitter against them.  "
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 20,
            "name": "Colossians 3:20",
            "text": "  Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.  "
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 21,
            "name": "Colossians 3:21",
            "text": "  Fathers, don\u2019t provoke your children, so that they won\u2019t be discouraged.  "
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 22,
            "name": "Colossians 3:22",
            "text": "  Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 23,
            "name": "Colossians 3:23",
            "text": "And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 24,
            "name": "Colossians 3:24",
            "text": "knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 3,
            "verse": 25,
            "name": "Colossians 3:25",
            "text": "But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.   "
        }
    ]
}