Colossians 3:2
Fix your thoughts on the things that are above, not on those that are on earth.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
In Context
3For you died, and your life now lies hidden, with the Christ, in God.
Cross References
Psalms 49:11The grave is their everlasting home, the place they shall live in for ever and ever, though after their own names they called whole lands.
Psalms 91:14“Because of their love for me, I will deliver them, I will protect those who trust my name.
Matthew 6:19“Do not store up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
Luke 12:15And then he added, “Take care to keep yourselves free from every form of covetousness; for even in the height of their prosperity a person’s true life does not depend on what they have.”
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 →