Colossians 3:2
Think on the things above, not the things on the earth.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
In Context
3For ye died, and your life has been hidden with the Christ in God.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 22:19Now set your heart and your soul to seek after LORD your God. Arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the
Psalms 49:11Their inward thought is [that] their houses [are] forever, their dwelling-places to all generations. They call their lands after their own names.
Psalms 91:14Because he has set his love upon me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high because he has known my name.
Proverbs 23:5Will thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For it certainly makes itself wings, like an eagle that flies toward heaven.
Matthew 6:19Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust deteriorates, and where thieves break through and steal,
Luke 12:15And he said to them, Watch, and keep away from greed, because to any man, life to him is not in the abundance of things possessed by him.
Matthew Henry on Colossians 3:2-5
The Spiritual Life. ( a. d. 62.) 1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. The apostle, having described our privileges by Christ in the former part of the epistle, and our discharge from the yoke of the ceremonial law, comes… Read the whole commentary →