Colossians 3:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

for you were buried with Him in baptism and raised to life with Him through your faith in the power of God who raised Him from the dead.

So through baptism we have been buried with Him in death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father's glorious power, so we too should live an entirely new life.

For through the law I myself have become dead to the law, so that I may live for God.

and how surpassingly great is His power for us who believe, measured by His tremendously mighty power

has made us, though dead because of our shortcomings, live again in fellowship with Christ -- it is by His unmerited favor that you have been saved.

Seek

Practice occupying your minds with the things above, not with the things on earth;

But keep on storing up your riches in heaven where moths and rust do not make away with them and where thieves do not break in and steal them.

Sell your property and give to charity. Provide for yourselves purses that will never wear out, riches that never fail in heaven, where a thief cannot come near nor a moth destroy,

For to be thinking the things suggested by the lower nature means death, but to be thinking the things suggested by the Spirit means life and peace.

because I do not keep my eyes on things that are seen but things that are unseen. For things that are seen are temporary, but things that are unseen are eternal.

But we are citizens of the republic in heaven, from which we are eagerly waiting for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.

These people all died victoriously as a result of their faith, although they did not receive the blessings promised; that is, because they really saw them in the far-off future and welcomed them, and so professed to be only foreigners and strangers here on earth.

General references

If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised,

But this One offered up once for all and for all time one sacrifice for sins, and once for all took His seat at God's right hand,

for we have no permanent city here, but we are searching for that city which is to be ours.