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 2:15–17Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
• 1 Chr 22:19Now 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.”
• Col 3:1If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
• Matt 16:23But 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.”
• Rom 8:4–6that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
• Matt 6:19“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
• Ps 119:36–37Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.
• Col 3:5Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
• Phil 3:19–20whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
• Luke 12:15He 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.”
• Ps 62:10Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.
• Phil 1:23But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
• Ps 91:14“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.
• Luke 16:11If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
• 1 Chr 29:3In 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,
• Eccl 7:14In 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.
• Prov 23:5Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
• Luke 16:19–25“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
• Luke 16:8–9“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.
• Ps 49:11–17Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.

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