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Colossians 3:2 KJV
Colossians · chapter 3 · verse 2
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.Colossians 3:2 · King James Version
What Colossians 3:2 means
Set is deliberate; affection doesn't drift upward on its own. Paul had just said ye are risen with Christ, so this isn't advice for improving yourself — it follows from something already true of you. And he names what to turn from as plainly as what to turn to.
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Colossians 3:2 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.
4When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
Commentary
Cross references
- 1 John 2:15-17
- 1 Chronicles 22:19
- Colossians 3:1
- Matthew 16:23
- Romans 8:4-6
- Matthew 6:19
- Psalms 119:36-37
- Colossians 3:5
Key words (Strong's)
- affectionphroneōto have understanding, be wise, to feel, to think, to have an opinion of one's self…G5426 →
- aboveanōup, upwards, above, on high, of the quarters of the heaven, northward, of countries…G507 →
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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