Your New Life
Richard Newton Sherrer 1951 (Easton)
Put to death what’s earthly in you,
Impure and evil desire;
Remember unto God be true,
Heavenly thoughts to acquire.
Avoid any impure passion,
Because the wrath of God is near;
No sexual fornication,
Rather worship Him to revere.
For at one time, you had once walked,
When you were living within them;
The obscenities you had talked,
With blasphemy, He would condemn.
But you have to put them away,
The anger, malice, and slander;
Such action causes you to stray,
As you aimlessly meander.
Do not lie to one another,
Put off the old self far away;
Treat them as sister and brother,
Comforting them in what you pray.
With a new self that you put on,
Knowledge and wisdom are renewed;
And the old self shall them be gone,
A new attitude will be viewed.
For there will be no Jew or Greek,
No longer any free or slave;
For those of Heaven that they seek,
Shall be rescued out of the grave.
Copyright ©2023 Richard Newton Sherrer
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Put Off the Old, Put On the New Colossians 3:5-11
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Written on August 19, 2023
Submitted by richardnsherrer on August 18, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 934 |
Words | 205 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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