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

General references

1 Corinthians 15:13

Hebrews 10:12

Hebrews 13:14

Bible References

Risen

being buried with him in the baptism, in which also ye rose with him through the faith of the working of God, who did raise him out of the dead.

we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.

for I through law, did die, that to God I may live;

and what the exceeding greatness of His power to us who are believing, according to the working of the power of His might,

even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)

Seek

the things above mind ye, not the things upon the earth,

Thou causest me to know the path of life; Fulness of joys is with Thy presence, Pleasant things by Thy right hand for ever!

From men, Thy hand, O Jehovah, From men of the world, their portion is in life, And with Thy hidden things Thou fillest their belly, They are satisfied with sons; And have left their abundance to their sucklings.

Whom have I in the heavens? And with Thee none I have desired in earth.

A path of life is on high for the wise, To turn aside from Sheol beneath.

but treasure up to yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth disfigure, and where thieves do not break through nor steal,

sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy;

for the mind of the flesh is death, and the mind of the Spirit -- life and peace;

we not looking to the things seen, but to the things not seen; for the things seen are temporary, but the things not seen are age-during.

For our citizenship is in the heavens, whence also a Saviour we await -- the Lord Jesus Christ --

In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted them, and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,

General references

and if there be no rising again of dead persons, neither hath Christ risen;

And He, for sin one sacrifice having offered -- to the end, did sit down on the right hand of God, --

for we have not here an abiding city, but the coming one we seek;