Colossians 3:2
Think about the things above, not about the things on earth.
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
In Context
3For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 22:19Now seek Yahweh your God with all your heart and your soul. Get up and build the holy place of Yahweh God. Then you can bring the ark of the covenant of Yahweh and the things that belong to God into the house built for Yahweh's name.”
Psalms 49:11Their inner thought is that their families will continue forever, 1 and the places where they live, to all generations; 1 they call their lands after their own names. 1
Psalms 91:14Because he is devoted to me, I will rescue him. 1 I will protect him because he is loyal to me. 1
Proverbs 23:5Will you let your eyes light upon it? 1 It will be gone, 1 for it will surely take up wings like an eagle 1 and fly off to the sky. 1
Matthew 6:19Do not store up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
Luke 12:15He said to them, “Watch that you keep yourselves from all greedy desires, because a person's life does not consist of the abundance of his possessions.”
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 →