Revised Webster's Bible
Colossians 3:3
3For ye are dead, and your life is hid 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.
- New International Version (NIV)For you died, and your life is now hidden 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.
Context of Colossians 3:3
1If ye then were raised 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. For 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. 5Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; immorality, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
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ἀπεθάνετε γὰρ καὶ ἡ ζωὴ ὑμῶν κέκρυπται σὺν τῷ Χριστῷ ἐν τῷ θεῷ·Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Colossians 3:3
- Colossians 2:20Therefore if ye are dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
- Romans 6:2By no means. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer in it?
- Galatians 2:20I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
- Colossians 3:4When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
- Colossians 1:5For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which ye have heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
- John 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
- John 4:14But whoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
- John 5:21For as the Father raiseth the dead, and giveth life to them ; even so the Son giveth life to whom he will.
- John 6:39And this is the Father’s will who hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise them up again at the last day.
- John 10:28And I give to them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them out of my hand.
- John 14:19Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
- Romans 5:10For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
- Romans 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
- 1 Corinthians 15:45And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a living spirit.
- 2 Corinthians 5:7(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
- Hebrews 7:25Therefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come to God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession 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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