Set your affections on things which are above, and not on things which are on the [a]earth.

[b]For ye are dead, [c]and your life is hid with Christ in God.

When Christ which is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 3:2 So he calleth that show of religion, which he spake of in the former Chapter.
  2. Colossians 3:3 A reason taken of the efficient causes and others: you are dead as touching the flesh, that is, touching the old nature which seeketh after all transitory things, and on the other side, you have begun to live according to the Spirit, therefore give yourselves to spiritual and heavenly, and not to carnal and earthly things.
  3. Colossians 3:3 The taking away of an objection: while we are yet in this world, we are subject to many miseries of this life, so that the life that is in us, is as it were hidden: yet notwithstanding we have the beginnings of life and glory, the accomplishment whereof which lieth now in Christ’s and in God’s hand, shall be assuredly and manifestly performed in that glorious coming of the Lord.

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