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Bible in Basic English

For your life on earth is done, and you have a secret life with Christ in God.

New American Standard Bible

For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

King James Version

For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

Holman Bible

For you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God.

International Standard Version

For you have died, and your life has been safely guarded by the Messiah in God.

A Conservative Version

For ye died, and your life has been hidden with the Christ in God.

American Standard Version

For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

Amplified

For you died [to this world], and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God.

An Understandable Version

For you died [with Christ, See 2:20], and your life is [now] hidden with Christ in [fellowship with] God.

Anderson New Testament

for you are dead, and your life is hid with the Christ in God.

Common New Testament

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Daniel Mace New Testament

for you are dead to them, and Christ has secured your life with God.

Darby Translation

for ye have died, and your life is hid with the Christ in God.

Godbey New Testament

For ye are dead, and your life is hidden with Christ in God:

Goodspeed New Testament

For you have died, and your life now lies hidden with Christ in God.

John Wesley New Testament

For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

Julia Smith Translation

For ye died, and your life has been hid with Christ in God.

King James 2000

For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Modern King James verseion

For you died, and your life has been hidden with Christ in God.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

Moffatt New Testament

for you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Montgomery New Testament

for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

NET Bible

for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

New Heart English Bible

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Noyes New Testament

For ye died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God;

Sawyer New Testament

For you have died, and your life is hid with Christ in God;

The Emphasized Bible

For ye have died, and, your life, is hid, together with the Christ, in God, -

Thomas Haweis New Testament

For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

Twentieth Century New Testament

For you died, and your Life now lies hidden, with the Christ, in God.

Webster

For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

Weymouth New Testament

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Williams New Testament

for you have died, and your life is now hidden in God through your fellowship with Christ.

World English Bible

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Worrell New Testament

for ye died, and your life has been hid with Christ in God.

Worsley New Testament

For ye are dead as to the world, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

Youngs Literal Translation

for ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the Christ in God;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

ye are dead
ἀποθνήσκω 
Apothnesko 
die, be dead, be at the point of death +9, perish, lie a dying, be slain +, vr dead
Usage: 93

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

ὑμῶν 
Humon 
your, you, ye, yours, not tr.,
Usage: 371

ζωή 
Zoe 
Usage: 88

is hid
κρύπτω 
Krupto 
Usage: 10

with
σύν 
sun 
Usage: 120

Χριστός 
christos 
Usage: 557

in
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

Images Colossians 3:3

Prayers for Colossians 3:3

Context Readings

Seek The Things Above

2 Keep your mind on the higher things, not on the things of earth. 3 For your life on earth is done, and you have a secret life with Christ in God. 4 At the coming of Christ who is our life, you will be seen with him in glory.

Cross References

Romans 6:2

In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?

Colossians 2:20

If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children.

John 3:16

For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.

John 4:14

But whoever takes the water I give him will never be in need of drink again; for the water I give him will become in him a fountain of eternal life.

John 5:21

In the same way, as the Father gives life to the dead, even so the Son gives life to those to whom he is pleased to give it.

John 5:24

Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.

Romans 8:2

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

John 5:40

And still you have no desire to come to me so that you may have life.

John 6:39-40

And this is the pleasure of him who sent me, that I am not to let out of my hands anything which he has given me, but I am to give it new life on the last day.

John 10:28-30

And I give them eternal life; they will never come to destruction, and no one will ever take them out of my hand.

John 14:19

A little time longer, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me; and you will be living because I am living.

Romans 5:10

For if, when we were haters of God, the death of his Son made us at peace with him, much more, now that we are his friends, will we have salvation through his life;

Romans 8:34-39

Who will give a decision against us? It is Christ Jesus who not only was put to death, but came again from the dead, who is now at the right hand of God, taking our part.

Romans 5:21

That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

1 Corinthians 2:14

For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 15:45

And so it is said, The first man Adam was a living soul. The last Adam is a life-giving spirit.

2 Corinthians 5:7

(For we are walking by faith, not by seeing,)

2 Corinthians 5:14

For it is the love of Christ which is moving us; because we are of the opinion that if one was put to death for all, then all have undergone death;

Galatians 2:20

I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.

Philippians 4:7

And the peace of God, which is deeper than all knowledge, will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 1:5

Through the hope which is in store for you in heaven; knowledge of which was given to you before in the true word of the good news,

Colossians 2:3

In whom are all the secret stores of wisdom and knowledge.

Colossians 3:4

At the coming of Christ who is our life, you will be seen with him in glory.

Hebrews 7:25

So that he is fully able to be the saviour of all who come to God through him, because he is ever living to make prayer to God for them.

1 Peter 1:3-5

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 Peter 3:4

But let them be those of the unseen man of the heart, the ever-shining ornament of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great price in the eyes of God.

1 John 3:2

My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.

Revelation 2:17

He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give of the secret manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name, of which no one has knowledge but he to whom it is given.

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