Colossians 3:2

Seek The Things Above

¹ If then you have a new life with Christ, give your attention to the things of heaven, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. ² Keep your mind on the higher things, not on the things of earth. ³ For your life on earth is done, and you have a secret life with Christ in God.

Earthly Things

On Earth

Matthew 16:23

But he, turning to Peter, said, Get out of my way, Satan: you are a danger to me because your mind is not on the things of God, but on the things of men.

1 Chronicles 22:19

Now give your heart and soul to the worship of the Lord your God; and get to work on the building of the holy place of the Lord God, so that you may put the ark of the Lord's agreement and the holy vessels of God in the house which is to be made for the name of the Lord.

Psalm 91:14

Because he has given me his love, I will take him out of danger: I will put him in a place of honour, because he has kept my name in his heart.

Psalm 119:36-37

Let my heart be turned to your unchanging word, and not to evil desire.

Luke 12:15

And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has.

Philippians 3:19-20

Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.

1 John 2:15-17

Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

1 Chronicles 29:3

And because this house of God is dear to me, I give my private store of gold and silver to the house of my God, in addition to all I have got ready for the holy house;

Psalm 49:11-17

The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands.

Psalm 62:10

Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.

Proverbs 23:5

Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In the day of wealth have joy, but in the day of evil take thought: God has put the one against the other, so that man may not be certain what will be after him.

Matthew 6:19

Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.

Luke 16:8-9

And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.

Luke 16:11

If, then, you have not been true in your use of the wealth of this life, who will give into your care the true wealth?

Luke 16:19-25

Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.

Romans 8:4-6

So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.

Philippians 1:23

I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:

Colossians 3:1

If then you have a new life with Christ, give your attention to the things of heaven, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.

Colossians 3:5

Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;