Col 3 weekly devotion

[clark thompson]

Colossians 3:1King James Version (KJV)
3 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

Easy English Bible
v1 God has raised you from death, so that you are alive with Christ. So, you should continue to look up. You should want more and more the things that are in *heaven, with Christ. Christ is sitting next to God, at his right side.

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These are my thoughts.
We should be doing things of righteousness and not things of the flesh.

[clark thompson]

Colossians 3:2King James Version (KJV)
2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

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v2Continue to think about things that are above. Do not think about things that are on the earth.

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These are my thoughts.
We should be laying our riches up in heaven and not on earth.

[clark thompson]

Colossians 3:3King James Version (KJV)

3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.





Easy English Bible


V3Think like that, because you have died. And now you are alive with Christ, who is united to God. God is keeping your life safe with Christ.


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These are my thoughts.

Without Christ we are dead but by Him we are made alive.

[clark thompson]

Colossians 3:4King James Version (KJV)
4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

Easy English Bible

v4It is Christ who causes us to be alive. And when Christ shows himself clearly to everyone, then everyone will see you also with him. You will be like him and you will shine with him.

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These are my thoughts.


Glory is in our Lord Jesus not a place, but Him a person.

[clark thompson]

Colossians 3:5King James Version (KJV)
5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

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v5So you must refuse to do bad things that belong to this earth. So then those things will stop being part of your life. You must not have sex with someone who is not your husband or your wife. You must not think bad, dirty thoughts. You must not want to have sex with other people. You must not want to do bad things. You must not want to have more and more things for yourselves. People who want things strongly like that are making those things more important than God. So they are really *worshipping those things.

© 1997-2008, Wycliffe Associates (UK)




These are my thoughts.

We should do whatever we need to do to remove sin from ourselves, apart from doing more sin.

[chancy]

We are fallible by nature and weak. We need to have the strength and grace from God to help us keep away from sin. Unless we have the grace of God, we are powerless to keep away from sin. And so we should always pray, and keep ourselves close to God. For the devil is cunning and lays his traps, to lure weak humans into the trap of sin, in whichever form it is. But God is our strength! Amen

[clark thompson]

Colossians 3:6King James Version (KJV)
6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

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v6God will be very angry with people who do those bad things. And he will *punish those people.
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These are my thoughts.
Those who disobey God will know His wrath.

[clark thompson]

Colossians 3:7King James Version (KJV)
7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.

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v7 At one time, you were doing these kinds of bad things. These things were ruling your lives then.

© 1997-2008, Wycliffe Associates (UK)

These are my thoughts.
There was once a time we lived as the world, we should be able to understand that without the One we have Christ, they will continue and those ways as we would if we never came to Him.