Colossians 3:2
Set youre affeccion on thynges that are above and not on thinges which are on the erth.
Tyndale New Testament
In The King James Version
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
In Context
3For ye are deed and youre lyfe is hid with Christ in god.
Cross References
Matthew 6:19Se that ye gaddre you not treasure vpon the erth where rust and mothes corrupte and where theves breake through and steale.
Luke 12:15Wherfore he sayde vnto them: take hede and beware of covetousnes. For no mannes lyfe stondeth in the aboundaunce of the thinges which he possesseth.
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 →