Colossians 3:1

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Summary

Colossians 3:1

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

Risen

Ephesians 2:5

Seek

Hebrews 11:13

General references

1 Corinthians 15:13

Hebrews 10:12

Hebrews 13:14

Bible References

Risen

when you were buried with him in baptism. In baptism also you were raised with him, through your faith in the energy of that God who raised him from the dead.

We have been buried together with him, then, through baptism into his death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we should live in a newness of life.

For it is through law I died to law, in order to live to God.

and what the surpassing greatness of his might in us who believe, as seen in the energy of that resistless might

even while we were dead in our trespasses, made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved).

Seek

Set your heart on things above, not on earthly things;

"but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.

"Sell what you have and give alms. Provide yourselves with purses which do not grow old, a treasure inexhaustible in the heavens, where no thief draws near, nor does moth destroy.

To be earthly minded means death; To be spiritually minded means life and peace.

while I am gazing not at things seen, but at things unseen; for things seen are temporal, but things unseen are eternal.

But commonwealth is in heaven; and it is from heaven also that we are anxiously awaiting a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,

These all died in faith, not having yet received the promises; nay, but they saw them from afar, and hailed them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

General references

But if there is no resurrection from the dead, then not even Christ has been raised;

this Priest, after offering one Sacrifice for sins, sat down forever on God's right hand;

For we have not here an abiding city, but we are earnestly seeking the city that is to be.