Colossians 3:2
Greek Text— Colossians 3:2Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
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He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
Now set your heart and your soul to follow Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for Yahweh’s name.”
For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”
but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal;
Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.
For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.
Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”
“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men.”
Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.
a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.
Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”
You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.
The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.
Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.
For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.
Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.
But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”
But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
The priests brought in the ark of Yahweh’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the cherubim’s wings.
David said to Solomon his son, “As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God.
The priests brought in the ark of Yahweh’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.
“He trusts in Yahweh. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”
Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.
For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.
for riches are not forever, nor does the crown endure to all generations.
by your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—”
If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”
So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.
For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
They said to him, “Behold, you are old, and your sons don’t walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”
Now therefore see the king whom you have chosen, and whom you have asked for. Behold, Yahweh has set a king over you.
Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness.
I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.
Revive me, Yahweh, for your name’s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.
Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.
Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”
So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!
“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
As for your donkeys who were lost three days ago, don’t set your mind on them; for they have been found. For whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you, and for all your father’s house?”
In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,
Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.
In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.
Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.