Colossians 3:2

Seek The Things Above

¹ So if you have been raised with the Messiah, seek what is above, where the Messiah is, seated at the right hand of God. ² Set your minds on what is above, not on what is on the earth. ³ For you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God.

Earthly Things

On Earth

Matthew 16:23

But He turned and told Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me because you’re not thinking about God’s concerns, but man’s.”

1 Chronicles 22:19

Now determine in your mind and heart to seek the Lord your God. Get started building the Lord God’s sanctuary so that you may bring the ark of the Lord’s covenant and the holy articles of God to the temple that is to be built for the name of Yahweh.”

Psalm 91:14

Because he is lovingly devoted to Me,
I will deliver him;
I will protect him because he knows My name.

Psalm 119:36-37

Turn my heart to Your decrees
and not to material gain.

Luke 12:15

He then told them, “Watch out and be on guard against all greed because one’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions.”

Philippians 3:19-20

Their end is destruction; their god is their stomach; their glory is in their shame. They are focused on earthly things,

1 John 2:15-17

Do not love the world or the things that belong to the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

1 Chronicles 29:3

Moreover, because of my delight in the house of my God, I now give my personal treasures of gold and silver for the house of my God over and above all that I’ve provided for the holy house:

Psalm 49:11-17

Their graves are their eternal homes,
their homes from generation to generation,
though they have named estates after themselves.

Psalm 62:10

Place no trust in oppression,
or false hope in robbery.
If wealth increases,
pay no attention to it.

Proverbs 23:5

As soon as your eyes fly to it, it disappears,
for it makes wings for itself
and flies like an eagle to the sky.

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man cannot discover anything that will come after him.

Matthew 6:19

“Don’t collect for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

Luke 16:8-9

“The master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted astutely. For the sons of this age are more astute than the sons of light in dealing with their own people.

Luke 16:11

So if you have not been faithful with the unrighteous money, who will trust you with what is genuine?

Luke 16:19-25

“There was a rich man who would dress in purple and fine linen, feasting lavishly every day.

Romans 8:4-6

in order that the law’s requirement would be accomplished in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Philippians 1:23

I am pressured by both. I have the desire to depart and be with Christ—which is far better—

Colossians 3:1

So if you have been raised with the Messiah, seek what is above, where the Messiah is, seated at the right hand of God.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore, put to death what belongs to your worldly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.