12 Bible Verses about Seeking Things Above

If therefore ye be risen with Christ, seek things above, where Christ is sitting on the right hand of God. Think of things above, and not upon those upon the earth.

But seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these shall be added to you.

As to the rest, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever venerable, whatever just, whatever pure, whatever lovely, whatever prosperous; if any ability, and if any praise, reckon up these things.

Expecting the blessed hope, and apppearance of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

Looking in the distance to Jesus the author and completer of the faith; who for the joy laid before him endured the cross, having despised the shame, and sat down on the right hand of the throne of God.

Having deemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than treasures in Egypt: for he looked to the payment of reward.

For our citizenship is in the heavens; from whence we also expect the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

Praised the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy having begotten us again to a living hope, by the rising up of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, kept in the heavens for us,

For this be not foolish, but understanding what the will of the Lord.

Praised be God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, he having praised us in every spiritual praise in heavenly things in Christ:

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose up, so also God by Jesus Christ will bring with him them having slept.

Jehovah will open to thee his good store, the heavens to give the rain of thy land in its time, and to bless all the doing of thy hand: and thou didst lend to many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.