Colossians Chapter 3 verse 1 Holy Bible
If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
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If then you have a new life with Christ, give your attention to the things of heaven, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
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If therefore ye have been raised with the Christ, seek the things [which are] above, where the Christ is, sitting at [the] right hand of God:
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If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
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If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
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If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated,
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Colossians 3 : 1 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 1-17. - SECTION VII. THE TRUE CHRISTIAN LIFE. The apostle, having delivered his attack on the system of error inculcated at Colossae, now passes from the controversial to the more practical purport of his letter. There is no break, however, in the current of his thought; for throughout this chapter he urges the pursuit of a practical Christian life in a sense and in a manner silently opposed to the tendencies of Gnosticizing error. How much more congenial was the task to which he now addresses himself we may judge, perhaps, from the ease and simplicity which mark the language of this chapter, as compared with the abrupt and seemingly embarrassed style of the last section. We may analyze the hortatory section of the Epistle (Colossians 3:1-4:6) as follows: (a) Colossians 3:1-4, urging the Colossians to maintain a lofty spiritual life; (b) vers. 5-8, to put off their old vices, impurity, malice, falsehood; (c) vers. 9-14, to put on the new Christian virtues, especially gentleness, forgivingness, love; . . .
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersIII.(1-4) As the partaking of the death of Christ taught the negative lesson of death to the Law, so the partaking of His resurrection teaches the positive lesson of the spiritual life. We observe that this celebrated passage occupies a place at the close of the doctrinal portion of the Epistle, exactly corresponding to the even greater passage on the unity of the Church in God in the Epistle to the Ephesians (Ephesians 4:1-16). It is unlike that passage, because, summing up the main teaching of this Epistle, it dwells simply on the close personal relation of all souls to God in Jesus Christ, who is at once "the image of God," and the one Mediator between God and man. It is like it (and like other passages of the Epistles of the Captivity) because it passes on from Christ risen to Christ in heaven: it takes for granted our being risen with Christ, and bids us in heart to ascend to heaven now, and look forward to the bliss of heaven in the hereafter.(1) If ye then be risen (rather, ye rose) with Christ.--In these words is marked the beginning of the spiritual life, referred evidently to baptism. (See Colossians 2:12.) It is a "resurrection with Christ" and in Christ; as such it is dwelt upon in detail in Romans 6:1-14. We may note that this phrase, implying a sudden passing from death unto life, accords more exactly with the idea of adult baptism, accepted in conscious faith, and leading at once to a new life; while the later phrase, "regeneration" (Titus 3:5), which speaks of the soul as passing, indeed, at once into a new condition, but as having only the undeveloped germ of the new life, corresponds more closely with the idea of the infant baptism, which gradually superseded the other. Here this spiritual resurrection is taken for granted, and the Apostle goes on at once to the next stage of the spiritual life.Christ.--The name, four times repeated, has in all cases the article prefixed to it. Evidently it used emphatically to refer to our Lord, as our Mediator--our Prophet, Priest, and King. . . .
