You have been raised with Christ, but are you seeking the things of Christ?

Once we followed the ways of the world, but now, in order to seek the things of Christ, we must try to get rid of all such things – anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive language from our mouths. We must lie to one another, seeing that we have stripped off the old self with its practices and have clothed ourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its creator – Jesus Christ.