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Colossians 3:18-4:1
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Colossians 3:18-4:1
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Colossians 3:12-17
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Colossians 3:1-10
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Colossians 3:11-17
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Colossians 3:18-4:1
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NEW LIFE IN CHRIST
Key verse: 3:1
NIV
Living as Those Made Alive in Christ
3 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ,(A) set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.(B) 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.(C) 3 For you died,(D) and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is your[a] life,(E) appears,(F) then you also will appear with him in glory.(G)
5 Put to death,(H) therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature:(I) sexual immorality,(J) impurity, lust, evil desires and greed,(K) which is idolatry.(L) 6 Because of these, the wrath of God(M) is coming.[b] 7 You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.(N) 8 But now you must also rid yourselves(O) of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander,(P) and filthy language from your lips.(Q) 9 Do not lie to each other,(R) since you have taken off your old self(S) with its practices 10 and have put on the new self,(T) which is being renewed(U) in knowledge in the image of its Creator.(V) 11 Here there is no Gentile or Jew,(W) circumcised or uncircumcised,(X) barbarian, Scythian, slave or free,(Y) but Christ is all,(Z) and is in all.
Footnotes
- Colossians 3:4 Some manuscripts our
- Colossians 3:6 Some early manuscripts coming on those who are disobedient
Cross references
- Colossians 3:1 : S Ro 6:5
- Colossians 3:1 : S Mk 16:19
- Colossians 3:2 : Php 3:19, 20
- Colossians 3:3 : S Ro 6:2; 2Co 5:14
- Colossians 3:4 : Gal 2:20
- Colossians 3:4 : 1Co 1:7
- Colossians 3:4 : 1Pe 1:13; 1Jn 3:2
- Colossians 3:5 : S Ro 6:2; S Eph 4:22
- Colossians 3:5 : S Gal 5:24
- Colossians 3:5 : S 1Co 6:18
- Colossians 3:5 : Eph 5:3
- Colossians 3:5 : Gal 5:19-21; Eph 5:5
- Colossians 3:6 : S Ro 1:18
- Colossians 3:7 : S Eph 2:2
- Colossians 3:8 : S Eph 4:22
- Colossians 3:8 : Eph 4:31
- Colossians 3:8 : Eph 4:29
- Colossians 3:9 : S Eph 4:22, 25
- Colossians 3:9 : S Ro 6:6
- Colossians 3:10 : S Ro 6:4; S 13:14
- Colossians 3:10 : Ro 12:2; S 2Co 4:16; Eph 4:23
- Colossians 3:10 : Eph 2:10
- Colossians 3:11 : Ro 10:12; 1Co 12:13
- Colossians 3:11 : S 1Co 7:19
- Colossians 3:11 : Gal 3:28
- Colossians 3:11 : Eph 1:23
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ESV
Put On the New Self
3 (A)If then you have been raised with Christ, seek (B)the things that are above, where Christ is, (C)seated at the right hand of God. 2 (D)Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For (E)you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ (F)who is your[a] life (G)appears, then you also will appear with him (H)in glory.
5 (I)Put to death therefore (J)what is earthly in you:[b] (K)sexual immorality, impurity, (L)passion, evil desire, and covetousness, (M)which is idolatry. 6 (N)On account of these the wrath of God is coming.[c] 7 (O)In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. 8 But now (P)you must put them all away: (Q)anger, wrath, malice, (R)slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 9 (S)Do not lie to one another, seeing that (T)you have put off (U)the old self[d] with its practices 10 and (V)have put on (W)the new self, (X)which is being renewed in knowledge (Y)after the image of (Z)its creator. 11 (AA)Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave,[e] free; but Christ is (AB)all, and in all.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Colossians 3:4 Some manuscripts our
- Colossians 3:5 Greek therefore your members that are on the earth
- Colossians 3:6 Some manuscripts add upon the sons of disobedience
- Colossians 3:9 Greek man; also as supplied in verse 10
- Colossians 3:11 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface; likewise for Bondservants in verse 22
Cross references
- Colossians 3:1 : ch. 2:12
- Colossians 3:1 : [Phil. 3:14]
- Colossians 3:1 : See Eph. 1:20
- Colossians 3:2 : See Matt. 16:23
- Colossians 3:3 : ch. 2:20; See Rom. 6:2
- Colossians 3:4 : See John 11:25
- Colossians 3:4 : [Phil. 3:21; 1 Pet. 1:1, 7, 13; 1 John 2:28; 3:2]
- Colossians 3:4 : 1 Cor. 15:43
- Colossians 3:5 : Rom. 8:13; [Gal. 5:24]
- Colossians 3:5 : Rom. 6:13
- Colossians 3:5 : See Eph. 5:3, 5
- Colossians 3:5 : Rom. 1:26
- Colossians 3:5 : [Job 31:25, 26]
- Colossians 3:6 : See Eph. 5:6
- Colossians 3:7 : See Eph. 2:2, 11
- Colossians 3:8 : See Eph. 4:22
- Colossians 3:8 : Eph. 4:31
- Colossians 3:8 : See Eph. 4:29
- Colossians 3:9 : Lev. 19:11; See Eph. 4:25
- Colossians 3:9 : ch. 2:11
- Colossians 3:9 : Rom. 6:6; Eph. 4:22
- Colossians 3:10 : Eph. 4:24
- Colossians 3:10 : See Rom. 6:4
- Colossians 3:10 : See Rom. 12:2
- Colossians 3:10 : See Rom. 8:29
- Colossians 3:10 : [Eph. 2:10]
- Colossians 3:11 : [Rom. 10:12]; See 1 Cor. 12:13; Gal. 5:6
- Colossians 3:11 : Eph. 1:23
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First, set your heart on things above (1-4). The believer's present status is dead to sin and 'raised with Christ'. Our goal and destination was completely changed from hell to the kingdom of God. As a pilot sets his direction and the airplane goes to that destination, so we will go to the kingdom of God or to hell according to how we set our heart on things above on Christ or on earthly things. Our life is now hidden with Christ. But when Christ, who has suffered, died but raised, appears, then we also will appear with him in glory. Second, put on the new self (5-11). Since we have new life with Christ, we must put to death whatever old life we used to walk with earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, greed, anger, rage, malice, slander, filthy language from our lips and lie. Put to death means to count ourselves dead to sin. It also means not offering our body to sin but to God (Ro 6:13). Here there is no Gentile or Jew. Everybody must take off old self and put on Jesus.
Prayer: Lord, let me set on my heart on you, putting my old nature to death and putting on Jesus new life everyday.
One Word: Set your heart on Jesus above