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Colossians 3:1 KJV
Colossians · chapter 3 · verse 1
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.Colossians 3:1 · King James Version
Colossians 3:1 in context
1If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
2Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
3For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Commentary
Cross references
- Romans 8:6
- Matthew 6:33
- 2 Corinthians 4:18
- Colossians 3:2
- Matthew 6:20
- Psalms 73:25-26
- Hebrews 12:2
- Galatians 2:19-20
Key words (Strong's)
- sittethesti"he/she/it is"G2076 →
- sittethkathēmaito sit down, seat one's self, to sit, be seated, of a place occupied, to have a fixed…G2521 →
- ChristchristosChrist = " anointed" , Christ was [and is], anointedG5547 →
- risensynegeirōto raise together, to cause to raise together, to raise up together from mortal death to…G4891 →
- aboveanōup, upwards, above, on high, of the quarters of the heaven, northward, of countries…G507 →
- seekzēteōto seek in order to find, to seek a thing, to seek [in order to find out] by thinking…G2212 →
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The apostle, having described our privileges by Christ in the former part of the epistle, and our discharge from the yoke of the ceremonial law, comes here to press upon us our duty as inferred thence.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-4