The Life of the New Man
Colossians 3:1-4 CSB Restoration So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Your New Life in Christ
Colossians 3:1-4 NCV Since you were raised from the dead with Christ, aim at what is in heaven, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God.
Think only about the things in heaven, not the things on earth.
You old sinful self has died, and your new life is kept with Christ in God.
Christ is your life, and when he comes again, you will share in his glory.
Your New Life in Christ
Colossians 3:1-4 Bibleman You were raised from death with Christ. So aim at what is in heaven, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God.
Think only about the things in heaven, not the things on earth.
Your old sinful self has died, and your new life is kept with Christ in God.
Christ is your life. When he comes again, you will share in his glory.
Colossians 3:1-4 Interlinear Volume 4 If, then, you were raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is sitting at the right of God;
mind the things above, not the things on the earth,
for you died, and your life has been hidden with Christ in God.
Whenever Christ our life is revealed, then also you will be revealed in glory with him.
The Life of the New Man
Colossians 3:1-4 TESB So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Living as Those Made Alive in Christ
Colossians 3:1-4 Ministry Essentials NIV Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Philippians 3:20-21 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.
Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ
Romans 6:1-4 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?
By no means! We ae those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?
Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.
And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
1 Corinthians 1:7-9 Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for the Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed.
He will also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Be Holy
1 Peter 1:13 Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.
1 John 3:2-3 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
The Life of the New Man
Colossians 3:1-4 CSB So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.