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Live Out Your Resurrection
Commentators explain that the command to 'seek things above' is not a suggestion but the logical outcome of a spiritual reality. Because you have been spiritually 'raised with Christ' (an event linked to conversion and baptism), your life's orientation should naturally shift from earthly matters to heavenly ones. This change in identity demands a change in focus.
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Colossians
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Albert Barnes
On Colossians 3:1
18th Century
Theologian
COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 3
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In the previous chapter, the apostle had shown what a true Christian should not pursue. …
AT Robertson
On Colossians 3:1
If then ye were raised together with Christ (ε ουν συνηγερθητε τω Χριστω). Condition of the first class, assumed as true, like tha…
Charles Ellicott
On Colossians 3:1
19th Century
Bishop
If you then are risen (or rather, you rose) with Christ.—These words mark the beginnin…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Colossians 3:1
19th Century
Preacher
If you then are risen with Christ—
Leave all these outward rituals, and formalities, and ordinances of men—
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Colossians 3:1
To set the heart on (lit., “seek”; GK 2426) things above is to desire and to strive for heavenly things. It is to see to it that one’s interests ar…
John Calvin
On Colossians 3:1
16th Century
Theologian
To those fruitless exercises which the false apostles urged, as if perfection consisted in them, he opposes those true exercises in which it is fit…
John Gill
On Colossians 3:1
17th Century
Pastor
If you then be risen with Christ
The apostle having observed in the former chapter, that the believing Colossians we…
Matthew Henry
On Colossians 3:1–4
17th Century
Minister
As Christians are freed from the ceremonial law, they must walk more closely with God in gospel obedience. As heaven and earth are contrary to each…