Colossians 3:2

Catholic Public Domain Version

Consider the things that are above, not the things that are upon the earth.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 22:19

Therefore, offer your hearts and your souls, so that you seek the Lord your God. And rise up and build a sanctuary to the Lord God, so that the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the vessels consecrated to the Lord, may be brought into the house that is built to the name of the Lord."

1 Chronicles 29:3

And in addition to these things that I have offered into the house of my God, I give, from my own belongings, gold and silver for the temple of my God, aside from those things that I have prepared for the holy shrine:

Psalm 62:10

Truly, these ones have sought my soul in vain. They will enter into the lower parts of the earth.

Psalm 91:14

Those planted in the house of the Lord will flourish in the courts of the house of our God.

Proverbs 23:5

Do not raise your eyes toward wealth that you are not able to have. For they will make themselves wings, like those of an eagle, and they will fly in the sky.

Ecclesiastes 7:14

Consider the works of God, that no one is able to correct whomever he has despised.

Matthew 16:23

And turning away, Jesus said to Peter: "Get behind me, Satan; you are an obstacle to me. For you are not behaving according to what is of God, but according to what is of men."

Matthew 6:19

Do not choose to store up for yourselves treasures on earth: where rust and moth consume, and where thieves break in and steal.

Luke 12:15

So he said to them: "Be cautious and wary of all avarice. For a person's life is not found in the abundance of the things that he possesses."

Luke 16:11

So then, if you have not been faithful with iniquitous mammon, who will trust you with what is true?

Philippians 1:23

For I am constrained between the two: having a desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ, which is the far better thing,

Colossians 3:1

Therefore, if you have risen together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore, mortify your body, while it is upon the earth. For because of fornication, impurity, lust, evil desires, and avarice, which are a kind of service to idols,