Compassion, Forgiveness, and Love

The New Life of the Community · Colossians 3

Story guide: Visual essay — artwork is an interpretation. Anonymous figures illustrate the community’s ethical teaching. Their reconciliation and gathering are examples, not recorded events or invented dialogue.

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12Put on, then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience,

13bearing with one another and forgiving each other, if anyone has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord also forgave you, so also you must do.

14And above all these, put on love, which is the bond of perfection.

15And let the peace of Messiah rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

16Let the word of Messiah dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God.

17And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

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