Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

You are God's chosen people. You are holy and dearly loved. So put on tender mercy and kindness as if they were your clothes. Don't be proud. Be gentle and patient.

Put up with each other. Forgive the things you are holding against one another. Forgive, just as the Lord forgave you.

And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.