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Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Colossians 3:1-4

(1) If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. (2) Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. (3) For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. (4) When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. The Apostle begins with calling upon the Church, as the risen members of Christ's mystical body, to a suitable and corresponding frame. The Reader will do... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 3:1-4

1-4 As Christians are freed from the ceremonial law, they must walk the more closely with God in gospel obedience. As heaven and earth are contrary one to the other, both cannot be followed together; and affection to the one will weaken and abate affection to the other. Those that are born again are dead to sin, because its dominion is broken, its power gradually subdued by the operation of grace, and it shall at length be extinguished by the perfection of glory. To be dead, then, means this,... read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Colossians 3:1-99

Colossians 3 THE COUNTERPART TO our identification with Christ in His death is our identification with Him in His resurrection. The effect of the one is to disconnect us from man’s world, man’s wisdom, man’s religion. The effect of the other is to put us into touch with God’s world and with all that is there. The first four verses of chapter 3 unfold the blessedness into which we are introduced. There are things which find their centre in Christ seated in heavenly glory. They are “things... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Colossians 3:1-4

The Affections of the Christians Set on Things Above. v. 1. If ye, then, be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. v. 2. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. v. 3. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. v. 4. When Christ, who is our Life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory. As the Bible-student will note, the similarity between Colossians and Ephesians is... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Colossians 3:1-4

III. PART SECONDExhortation to vital sanctificationColossians 3:1 to Colossians 4:61. The foundation and prospect of a genuine Christian mind and walk.(Colossians 3:1-4)1If ye then be risen [were raised together] 1 with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth [is, sitting] on the right hand of God. 2Set your affection 3[mind] on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead2 [died] and 4your life is [or hath been] hid [χέχρυπται] with Christ in God. When... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Colossians 3:3-15

Colossians RISEN WITH CHRIST Col_3:1-15 . The resurrection is regarded in Scripture in three aspects--as a fact establishing our Lord’s Messiahship, as a prophecy of our rising from the dead, and as a symbol of the Christian life even now. The last is the aspect under which Paul deals with it here. I. Verses 1-4 set forth the wonderful but most real union of the believer with the risen Christ. We have said that the Lord’s resurrection is regarded as a symbol, but that is an incomplete... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Colossians 3:1-11

Seeking the “Things That Are Above” Colossians 3:1-11 Let us repeat the glorious truth, which was doubtless the heart of Paul’s teaching, that our old nature has been nailed in Christ to the Cross, and laid in the grave; and that our real self, the second Adam, has entered the new world of resurrection. We belong to the world on the threshold of which Jesus said, “Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended.” We must guard against the defiling touch of the world, of sin, and of the old... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Colossians 3:1-25

The believer is to "seek the things . . . above." The word "seek" marks aspiration, desire, and passion. The things above are those of the empire of Christ. In order to seek these things the mind must be set on them. The believer's responsibility is revealed, first, in response to the union with Christ in death, in putting to death the things of the earth, of which a list is given. Also the things of the spirit which are evil must be put off. These too are named. Then follows the application... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Colossians 3:1-15

The New Life in Christ Jesus Colossians 3:1-15 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Seven pairs of things: 1. Things above, and things on the earth (Colossians 3:2 ). 2. Things seen, and things not seen (2 Corinthians 4:18 ). 3. Things temporal, and things eternal (2 Corinthians 4:18 ). 4. Things of weakness, and things mighty (1 Corinthians 1:27-28 ). 5. Things of a man, and the things of God (1 Corinthians 2:11 ). 6. Things behind, and things before (Philippians 3:13 ). 7. Things of self, and things of... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Colossians 3:4

‘When Christ who is our life shall be revealed and made fully made known, then will you also be fully made known with him in glory.’ And what a glorious future awaits the Christian. For one day at His coming Christ will be made fully known. He will be revealed in all His glory (2 Thessalonians 1:7-10; Mark 13:26-27). We will see Him as He is (1 John 3:2). And then will the world see the glory that the Christian has in his oneness with Christ, for we will share His glory, and it will shine out... read more