Colossians 3:2
Think of things on high; not of the things on earth:
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
In Context
3for ye are dead; and your life is hidden with the Messiah, in God.
Cross References
Matthew 6:19Lay not up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust spoil, and where thieves dig through and steal.
Luke 12:15And he said to his disciples: Beware of all avarice, for life consisteth not in abundance of riches.
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 →