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Colossians 3:3
3For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
Colossians 3:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
- New Living Translation (NLT)For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God.
Context of Colossians 3:3
1Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. 5Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
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ἀπεθάνετε γὰρ καὶ ἡ ζωὴ ὑμῶν κέκρυπται σὺν τῷ Χριστῷ ἐν τῷ θεῷ·Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Colossians 3:3
- Colossians 2:20Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules:
- Romans 6:2By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?
- Galatians 2:20I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
- Colossians 3:4When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
- Colossians 1:5the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard in the true message of the gospel
- John 3:16For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
- John 4:14but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
- John 5:21For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it.
- John 6:39And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day.
- John 10:28I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand.
- John 14:19Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
- Romans 5:10For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!
- Romans 8:2because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.
- 1 Corinthians 15:45So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.
- 2 Corinthians 5:7For we live by faith, not by sight.
- Hebrews 7:25Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.
Commentaries on Colossians 3:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3For ye are dead - To all hopes of happiness from the present world; and, according to your profession, should feel no more appetite for the things of this life, than he does whose soul is departed into the invisible state. Your life is hid with Christ in God - Christ is your treasure; and where your treasure is, there is your heart. Christ lives in the bosom of the Father; as your heart is in him, ye also sit in heavenly places with Christ Jesus. Christ…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3For ye are dead - Dead to the world; dead to sin; dead to earthly pleasures. On the meaning of the word “dead,” see the Romans 6:2 note; Ephesians 2:1 note. The idea of the apostle is, that as Christ became literally dead in the tomb, so we, in virtue of our connection with him, have become dead to sin, to worldly influences, pleasures, and ambition. Or, in other words, we are to be to them as if we were dead, and they had no more influence over us than…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-4you died: See 2:20. What is now hidden will be revealed one day (compare 1:26). We cannot see Christ sitting at the right hand of God or that we have new life with Christ. But by faith in the good news, we know these things are true. When Christ returns in glory, everyone will see his supremacy. Then our relationship to him will become direct experience.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. The Greek aorist tense implies, "For ye have died once for all" (Col 2:12; Ro 6:4-7). It is not said, Ye must die practically to the world in order to become dead with Christ; but the latter is assumed as once for all having taken place in the regeneration; what believers are told is, Develop this spiritual life in practice. "No one longs for eternal, incorruptible, and immortal life, unless he be wearied of this temporal, corruptible, and mortal life"…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Colossians 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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