Colossians 3:1
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
KJV
Εἰ οὖν συνηγέρθητε τῷ Χριστῷ, τὰ ἄνω ζητεῖτε, οὗ ὁ Χριστός ἐστιν ἐν δεξιᾷ τοῦ θεοῦ καθήμενος·
Greek NT
Igitur, si consurrexistis cum Christo : quæ sursum sunt quærite, ubi Christus est in dextera Dei sedens :
Vulgate
If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
ASV
Therefore if you be risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Χριστός
christos
noun · 530×
δεξιός
dexios
adjective · 54×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
ζητέω
zeteo
verb · 117×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
κάθημαι
kathemai
verb · 89×
οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
οὗ
ou
adverb · 24×
συνεγείρω
sunegeiro
verb · 3×
ἄνω
ano
adverb · 9×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Themes
Historic Christian voices
14 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Catechism of the Catholic Church · 2 passages
§655Finally, Christ's Resurrection - and the risen Christ himself is the principle and source of our future resurrection: "Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. . . For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive."528 The risen Christ lives in the hearts of his faithful while they await that fulfilment. In Christ, …
§1002Christ will raise us up "on the last day"; but it is also true that, in a certain way, we have already risen with Christ. For, by virtue of the Holy Spirit, Christian life is already now on earth a participation in the death and Resurrection of Christ: And you were buried with him in Baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised…
City of God · 4 passages
Chapter 4.—About the Prefigured Change of the Israelitic Kingdom and Priesthood, and About the Things Hannah the Mother of Samuel Prophesied, Personating the Church. Therefore the advance of the city of God, where it reached the times of the kings, yielded a figure, when, on the rejection of Saul, David first obtained the kingdom on such a footing that thenceforth his descendan…
Chapter 28.—Of the Things Pertaining to the Gospel of Christ Which Hosea and Amos Prohesied. The prophet Hosea speaks so very profoundly that it is laborious work to penetrate his meaning. But, according to promise, we must insert something from his book. He says, “And it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there they shall be…
Chapter 9.—What the Reign of the Saints with Christ for a Thousand Years Is, and How It Differs from the Eternal Kingdom. But while the devil is bound, the saints reign with Christ during the same thousand years, understood in the same way, that is, of the time of His first coming.13541354 Between His first and second coming. For, leaving out of account that kingdom concerning …
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Did it belong for Christ to ascend into heaven? According to which nature did it become Him to ascend? Did He ascend by His own power? Did He ascend above all the corporeal heavens? Did He ascend above all spiritual creatures? The effect of the ascension Article 1. Whether it was fitting for Christ to ascend into heaven? Objection 1. It would seem that it was not fitting for Ch…
Heidelberg Catechism · 4 passages
Q. How does Christ's resurrection benefit us? A. First, by his resurrection he has overcome death, so that he might make us share in the righteousness he won for us by his death. Second, by his power we too are already now raised to a new life. Third, Christ's resurrection is a guarantee of our glorious resurrection.
Q. What do you mean by saying: He ascended to heaven? A. That Christ, while his disciples watched, was lifted up from the earth to heaven and will be there for our good until he comes again to judge the living and the dead.
Q. How does Christ's ascension to heaven benefit us? A. First, he pleads our cause in heaven in the presence of his Father. Second, we have our own flesh in heaven — a guarantee that Christ our head will take us, his members, to himself in heaven. Third, he sends his Spirit to us on earth as a further guarantee. By the Spirit's power we make the goal of our lives, not earthly t…
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Cross-references
- 1John 2:15 — Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
- 1Pet 3:22 — Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
- 1Pet 3:22 — Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
- 2Cor 4:18 — While we look not 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.
- 2Cor 5:15 — And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
- 2Cor 5:17 — Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
- Acts 2:34 — For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
- Acts 7:55 — But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
- Col 2:12 — Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
- Col 2:12 — Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
- Col 2:20 — Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
- Col 3:2 — Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
- Col 3:2 — Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
- Eph 1:19 — And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
- Eph 1:20 — Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
- Eph 2:1 — And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
- Eph 2:5 — Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
- Eph 2:6 — And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
- Eph 4:10 — He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
- Eph 5:14 — Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
- Gal 2:19 — For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
- Gal 6:14 — But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
- Heb 1:3 — Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the
- Heb 1:3 — Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the
- Heb 1:13 — But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?
- Heb 6:19 — Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
- Heb 8:1 — Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
- Heb 8:1 — Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
- Heb 10:12 — But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
- Heb 10:12 — But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
- Heb 11:13 — These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the eart
- Heb 12:2 — Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
- Heb 13:14 — For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
- Jas 1:27 — Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
- Luke 12:33 — Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
- Luke 12:34 — For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
- Luke 20:42 — And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
- Luke 22:69 — Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God.
- Luke 22:69 — Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God.
- Mark 12:36 — For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.