Colossians 3:1
Since, therefore, you were raised to life with the Christ, seek for the things that are above; for it is there that the Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
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2Fix your thoughts on the things that are above, not on those that are on earth.
Cross References
Psalms 17:14by your hand, O Lord, from those – whose portion of life is but of this world. But let your treasured ones have food in plenty may their children be full and their children satisfied.
Psalms 110:1This said the Lord concerning my lord, “Sit at my right hand, till I set your foot on the neck of your foes.”
Matthew 6:20But store up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal.
Matthew 22:44‘The Lord said to my Lord: Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies beneath your feet’?
Mark 12:36David said himself, speaking under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit – ‘The Lord said to my lord: Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies beneath your feet.’
Mark 16:19So the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat at the right hand of God.
Matthew Henry on Colossians 3:1
I. The apostle exhorts us to set our hearts upon heaven and take them off from this world, ver. 1-4 . II. He exhorts to the mortification of sin, in the various instances of it, ver. 5-11 . III. He earnestly presses to mutual love and compassion, ver. 12-17 . And concludes with exhortations to relative duties, of wives and husbands, parents and children, masters and servants, ver. 18-25 . Read the whole commentary →