Colossians 3:3
For you are dead; and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
In Context
2Mind the things that are above, not the things that are upon the earth.
4When Christ shall appear, who is your life, then you also shall appear with him in glory.
Cross References
Matthew 11:25At that time Jesus answered and said: I confess to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to the little ones.
John 4:14But the water that I will give him, shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting.
John 5:24Amen, amen I say unto you, that he who heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath life everlasting; and cometh not into judgment, but is passed from death to life.
John 6:39Now this is the will of the Father who sent me: that of all that he hath given me, I should lose nothing; but should raise it up again in the last day.
John 14:19Yet a little while: and the world seeth me no more. But you see me: because I live, and you shall live.
Romans 5:21That as sin hath reigned to death; so also grace might reign by justice unto life everlasting, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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 →