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If ye then be riseng with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christh sitteth on the right hand of God.

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Col. 2:12• ¹²buried with him in baptism, in which ye have been also raised with him through faith of the working of God who raised him from among the dead. (Col. 2:12)

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Rom. 8:31• ³¹What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who against us? (Rom. 8:31)

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1-4: He shows where we should seek Christ.

5-9: He exhorts to mortification;

10-11: to put off the old man, and put on Christ;

12-25: exhorting to charity, humility, and other several duties.

risen.

Col. 2:12‑13,20• ¹²buried with him in baptism, in which ye have been also raised with him through faith of the working of God who raised him from among the dead.
¹³And you, being dead in offences and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has quickened together with him, having forgiven us all the offences;
²⁰If ye have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why as if alive in the world do ye subject yourselves to ordinances? (Col. 2:12‑13,20)

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Rom. 6:4‑5,9‑11• ⁴We have been buried therefore with him by baptism unto death, in order that, even as Christ has been raised up from among the dead by the glory of the Father, so *we* also should walk in newness of life.
⁵For if we are become identified with him in the likeness of his death, so also we shall be of his resurrection;
⁹knowing that Christ having been raised up from among the dead dies no more: death has dominion over him no more.
¹⁰For in that he has died, he has died to sin once for all; but in that he lives, he lives to God.
¹¹So also *ye*, reckon yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. (Rom. 6:4‑5,9‑11)

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Gal. 2:19‑20• ¹⁹For *I*, through law, have died to law, that I may live to God.
²⁰I am crucified with Christ, and no longer live, *I*, but Christ lives in me; but in that I now live in flesh, I live by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who has loved me and given himself for me. (Gal. 2:19‑20)

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Eph. 1:19‑20• ¹⁹and what the surpassing greatness of his power towards us who believe, according to the working of the might of his strength,
²⁰in which he wrought in the Christ in raising him from among the dead, and he set him down at his right hand in the heavenlies, (Eph. 1:19‑20)

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Eph. 2:5‑6• ⁵(we too being dead in offences,) has quickened us with the Christ, (ye are saved by grace,)
⁶and has raised us up together, and has made us sit down together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus, (Eph. 2:5‑6)

seek.

Col. 3:2• ²have your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth; (Col. 3:2)

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Psa. 16:11• ¹¹Thou wilt make known to me the path of life: thy countenance is fulness of joy; at thy right hand are pleasures for evermore. (Psa. 16:11)

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Psa. 17:14‑15• ¹⁴From men who are thy hand, O Jehovah, from men of this age: their portion is in this life, and their belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure; they have their fill of sons, and leave the rest of their substance to their children.
¹⁵As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. (Psa. 17:14‑15)

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Psa. 73:25‑26• ²⁵Whom have I in the heavens? and there is none upon earth I desire beside thee.
²⁶My flesh and my heart faileth: God is the rock of my heart and my portion for ever. (Psa. 73:25‑26)

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Prov. 15:24• ²⁴The path of life is upwards for the wise, that he may depart from Sheol beneath. (Prov. 15:24)

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Matt. 6:20,33• ²⁰but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust spoils, and where thieves do not dig through nor steal;
³³But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. (Matt. 6:20,33)

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Luke 12:33• ³³Sell what ye possess and give alms; make to yourselves purses which do not grow old, a treasure which does not fail in the heavens, where thief does not draw near nor moth destroy. (Luke 12:33)

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Rom. 8:6• ⁶For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit life and peace. (Rom. 8:6)

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2 Cor. 4:18• ¹⁸while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen; for the things that are seen are for a time, but those that are not seen eternal. (2 Cor. 4:18)

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Phil. 3:20‑21• ²⁰for *our* commonwealth has its existence in the heavens, from which also we await the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour,
²¹who shall transform our body of humiliation into conformity to his body of glory, according to the working of the power which he has even to subdue all things to himself. (Phil. 3:20‑21)

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Heb. 11:13‑16• ¹³All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar off and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.
¹⁴For they who say such things shew clearly that they seek their country.
¹⁵And if they had called to mind that from whence they went out, they had had opportunity to have returned;
¹⁶but now they seek a better, that is, a heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he has prepared for them a city. (Heb. 11:13‑16)

where.

Psa. 110:1• ¹Psalm of David. Jehovah said unto my Lord, Sit at my right hand, until I put thine enemies as footstool of thy feet. (Psa. 110:1)

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Matt. 22:44• ⁴⁴The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand until I put thine enemies under thy feet? (Matt. 22:44)

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Matt. 26:64• ⁶⁴Jesus says to him, *Thou* hast said. Moreover, I say to you, From henceforth ye shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of heaven. (Matt. 26:64)

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Mark 12:36• ³⁶for David himself said speaking in the Holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand until I put thine enemies as footstool of thy feet. (Mark 12:36)

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Mark 14:62• ⁶²And Jesus said, *I* am, and ye shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of power, and coming with the clouds of heaven. (Mark 14:62)

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Mark 16:19• ¹⁹The Lord therefore, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat at the right hand of God. (Mark 16:19)

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Luke 20:42• ⁴²and David himself says in the book of Psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand (Luke 20:42)

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Luke 22:69• ⁶⁹but henceforth shall the Son of man be sitting on the right hand of the power of God. (Luke 22:69)

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Acts 2:34• ³⁴For David has not ascended into the heavens, but he says himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit at my right hand (Acts 2:34)

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Acts 7:55• ⁵⁵But being full of the Holy Spirit, having fixed his eyes on heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, (Acts 7:55)

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Rom. 8:34• ³⁴who is he that condemns? It is Christ who has died, but rather has been also raised up; who is also at the right hand of God; who also intercedes for us. (Rom. 8:34)

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Eph. 1:20• ²⁰in which he wrought in the Christ in raising him from among the dead, and he set him down at his right hand in the heavenlies, (Eph. 1:20)

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Eph. 4:10• ¹⁰He that descended is the same who has also ascended up above all the heavens, that he might fill all things; (Eph. 4:10)

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Heb. 1:3,13• ³who being the effulgence of his glory and the expression of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made by himself the purification of sins, set himself down on the right hand of the greatness on high,
¹³But as to which of the angels said he ever, Sit at my right hand until I put thine enemies as footstool of thy feet? (Heb. 1:3,13)

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Heb. 8:1• ¹Now a summary of the things of which we are speaking is, We have such a one high priest who has sat down on the right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens; (Heb. 8:1)

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Heb. 10:12• ¹²But *he*, having offered one sacrifice for sins, sat down in perpetuity at the right hand of God, (Heb. 10:12)

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Heb. 12:2• ²looking stedfastly on Jesus the leader and completer of faith: who, in view of the joy lying before him, endured the cross, having despised the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Heb. 12:2)

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1 Peter 3:22• ²²who is at the right hand of God, gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being subjected to him. (1 Peter 3:22)

• To look, to have one’s motives, above and below at the same time is impossible. Be tempted by things, have to resist them, we may; but this is not to have them as our object. (“Colossians 3” by J.N. Darby)

• In this Epistle to the Colossians we find that there is a new nature, an intrinsic change, not of the flesh indeed, but of the man. For we are viewed, not merely as quickened by the Son, but as dead and risen with Christ, the Man who had died, so as to have passed out of-put off-the old standing of a child of Adam, and into a risen one with Christ-put on the new man. (“Colossians 3” by J.N. Darby)

• He now shows that the practical effect of our identification with Christ’s resurrection is to associate us with God’s world above and with all that is there. (“The Believer's Identification With the Death and Resurrection of Christ: Colossians 3:1-11” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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If therefore ye have been raised with the Christ, seek the things which are above, where the Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God:

W. Kelly Translation

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If therefore ye were raised with Christ, seek the things above, where the Christ is seated on [the] right hand of God.