Colossians 3:2

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Summary

Colossians 3:2

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

Set

Not

1 John 2:15

General references

1 Corinthians 15:13

Hebrews 13:14

Bible References

Set

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

Now set your heart and your soul to seek after Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of Yahweh."

In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,

Don't trust in oppression. Don't become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don't set your heart on them.

"Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.

But he turned, and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men."

that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

Not

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.

"Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses."

"His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

General references

But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised.

For we don't have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.