Colossians 3:2

Seek The Things Above

¹ If therefore ye be risen with Christ, seek things above, where Christ is sitting on the right hand of God. ² Think of things above, and not upon those upon the earth. ³ For ye died, and your life has been hid with Christ in God.

Earthly Things

On Earth

Matthew 16:23

And having turned, he said to Peter, Retire behind me, Satan: thou art an offence, to me: for thou hast not in mind the things of God, but the things of men.

1 Chronicles 22:19

Now ye shall give your heart and your soul to seek to Jehovah your God; and arise ye and build the holy place of Jehovah God to bring the ark of the covenant of Jehovah and the holy vessels of God, to the house being built to the name of Jehovah.

Psalm 91:14

For he delighted in me and I will deliver him: I will exalt him, for he knew my name.

Psalm 119:36-37

Incline my heart to thy testimonies and not to plunder.

Luke 12:15

And he said to them, See, and watch yourselves from covetousness: for not in the abounding to any one of his possessions is his life.

Philippians 3:19-20

Whose end destruction, whose God the belly, and their glory in shame, having in mind earthly things.)

1 John 2:15-17

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

1 Chronicles 29:3

And yet in my delighting in the house of my God, there is to me property of gold and silver I gave to the house of my God, to above from all I prepared for the holy house,

Psalm 49:11-17

The midst of them their houses forever, their dwellings to generation and generation; they called in their names upon their lands.

Psalm 62:10

Ye shall not trust in oppression, ye shall not become vain in plunder: if wealth shall increase ye shall not set the heart

Proverbs 23:5

Wilt thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it and it is not? for making, it will make to it wings; as an eagle and it flew to the heavens.

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In the day of good, be in good; and in the day of evil, see thou: also God made this over against this, to the end that man shall not find anything after him.

Matthew 6:19

Treasure not up to you treasures upon earth, where moth and gnawing destroy, and thieves dig through and steal:

Luke 16:8-9

And the Lord praised the steward of injustice, because he did wisely: for the sons of this life are wiser than the children of light in their generation.

Luke 16:11

If therefore ye were not faithful in the unjust mammon, who shall trust to you the true?

Luke 16:19-25

A certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, being daily splendidly gladdened:

Romans 8:4-6

That the justification of the law be filled up in us, not walking according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Philippians 1:23

For I am pressed together from two, having one eager desire to be loosed, and be with Christ (rather much better:)

Colossians 3:1

If therefore ye be risen with Christ, seek things above, where Christ is sitting on the right hand of God.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore kill your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry: