Colossians 3:2

They are to set their minds on heavenly things, not earthly ones. Christian living begins with where we fix our thoughts.

Cross-references · 20

• 1 Jn 2:15–17Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
• 1 Chr 22:19Now set your heart and soul to seek the LORD your God. Get started building the sanctuary of the LORD God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD and the holy articles of God into the temple that will be built for the Name of the LORD.”
• Col 3:1Therefore, since you have been raised with Christ, strive for the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
• Matt 16:23But Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me. For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”
• Rom 8:4–6so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
• Matt 6:19Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
• Ps 119:36–37Turn my heart to Your testimonies and not to covetous gain.
• Col 3:5Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
• Phil 3:19–20Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
• Luke 12:15And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
• Ps 62:10Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
• Phil 1:23I am torn between the two. I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better indeed.
• Ps 91:14“Because he loves Me, I will deliver him; because he knows My name, I will protect him.
• Luke 16:11So if you have not been faithful with worldly wealth, who will entrust you with true riches?
• 1 Chr 29:3Moreover, because of my delight in the house of my God, I now give for it my personal treasures of gold and silver, over and above all that I have provided for this holy temple:
• Eccl 7:14In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.
• Prov 23:5When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
• Luke 16:19–25Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.
• Luke 16:8–9The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the sons of light.
• Ps 49:11–17Their graves are their eternal homes—their dwellings for endless generations—even though their lands were their namesakes.

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