Colossians 3:2 · KJV
“Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. {affection: or, mind}”
— Colossians 3:2
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Colossians 3 — Context
If 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. {affection: or, mind}
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.
Cross References
1 John 2:15-17
Love not the world, neither the things {that are} in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 Chronicles 22:19
Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD.
Colossians 3:1
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Matthew 16:23
But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
Romans 8:4-6
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Matthew 6:19
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Psalms 119:36-37
Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
Colossians 3:5
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: