colossians-3:1-2,-hebrews-3:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Colossians 3:2

Set your affection - Margin, “or mind.” Greek” think of” - φρονεῖτε phroneite. The thoughts should be occupied about the things where Christ now dwells, where our final home is to be, where our great interests are. Since we are raised from the death of sin, and are made to live anew, the great object of our contemplation should be the heavenly world.Not on things on the earth - Wealth, honor, pleasure. Our affections should not be fixed on houses and lands; on scenes of fashion and gaiety; on... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Colossians 3:1-2

Colossians 3:1-2. If ye then be risen with Christ From spiritual death to spiritual life, as spoken of Colossians 2:12-13. See also notes on Ephesians 2:1; Ephesians 2:6. If ye be not only engaged to become new creatures, but really are such: or, which seems to be also implied, If Christ’s resurrection draw after it, and ensure, the resurrection of all men, and especially of all his true disciples, and if, therefore, you be begotten again to a lively hope of rising with him, even as to your... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Colossians 3:1-4

Christian freedom in practice (2:16-3:4)In view of the freedom that Christ has won for them, the Colossian believers must not listen to those who try to force them to obey the rules and regulations of the Israelite law. Practices taught in the law may be compared to shadows. They are not solid or permanent, but their existence enables the viewer to know that there is some real object that casts the shadows. That real object is Jesus Christ. Now that he has come, the shadows are of no further... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Colossians 3:1

If App-118 . be risen with = score raised with. App-178 . Christ . App-98 . things . . . above . See Philippians 1:3 , Philippians 1:13 , Philippians 1:14 . on. App-104 . God. App-98 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Colossians 3:2

Set your affection on = Mind. Greek phroneo. See Romans 8:5 . not. App-105 . on. App-104 . earth. App-199 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Colossians 3:1

COL. 3Findlay's outline of this section of the epistle is:a. The Colossians urged to maintain a lofty spiritual life (Colossians 3:1-4). b. They were to put off old vices (Colossians 3:5-8). 100They were to put on new Christian virtues (Colossians 3:9-14). d. The sovereignty of Christ was to rule them (Colossians 3:15-17). e. Instructions regarding reciprocal relationships (Colossians 3:18-4:1). 1. As wives and husbands (Colossians 3:18-20). 2. As parents and children (Colossians 3:21). 3. As... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Colossians 3:2

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth.See preceding verse. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Colossians 3:1

Colossians 3:1. If ye then be risen, &c.— The Apostle here proceeds, upon the principles that he had laid down, to graft a most important practical exhortation on what he had said; than which nothing could more effectually tend to take them off from those bigotted attachments which he was so solicitous to root out;—a remarkable instance of that happy address which we have so often had an opportunity of observing. See the Inferences. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Colossians 3:2

Colossians 3:2. Set your affection on things above,— The original is mind, regard: "Prefer and pursue the things that are above:" — Τα αω φρονειτε . read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Colossians 3:1

1. If . . . then—The connection with Colossians 2:18; Colossians 2:23, is, he had condemned the "fleshly mind" and the "satiating to the full the flesh"; in contrast to this he now says, "If then ye have been once for all raised up (Greek, aorist tense) together with Christ" (namely, at your conversion and baptism, Romans 6:4). seek those things . . . above— (Matthew 6:33; Philippians 3:20). sitteth—rather, as Greek, "Where Christ is, sitting on the right of God" (Ephesians 1:20). The Head... read more