the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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Colossians 3:3
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For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
For you died and your life has been hidden with Christ in God.
You died to the past, but new life is found in the present, and the presence of God.
For your life on earth is done, and you have a secret life with Christ in God.
for ye have died, and your life is hid with the Christ in God.
For you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God.
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
For yee are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
For you died, and your life has been hidden with Christ in God.
For ye are deed, and youre life is hyd with Christ in God.
for you are dead to them, and Christ has secured your life with God.
Your old life is dead. Your new life, which is your real life—even though invisible to spectators—is with Christ in God. He is your life. When Christ (your real life, remember) shows up again on this earth, you'll show up, too—the real you, the glorious you. Meanwhile, be content with obscurity, like Christ.
For you died [to this world], and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God.
For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
For you have died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
For ye are deed and youre lyfe is hid with Christ in god.
For you died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
for ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the Christ in God;
Your old sinful self has died, and your new life is kept with Christ in God.
for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
You died, which means that your life is hidden with Christ, who sits beside God.
For you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God.
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
For you are dead, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
For you died, and your life is hidden with Messiah in God.
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.Romans 6:2; 2 Corinthians 5:7; Galatians 2:20; Colossians 1:5; 2:20;">[xr]
For you are dead, and your life is hid with the Meshiha in Aloha;
for ye are dead; and your life is hidden with the Messiah, in God.
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God.
You are dead to the things of this world. Your new life is now hidden in God through Christ.
For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
For ye have died, and, your life, is hid, together with the Christ, in God, -
For you are dead: and your life is hid with Christ in God.
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
For ye are dead, and your lyfe is hyd with Christe in God.
Your old self has died, and your new life is kept with Christ in God.
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
For ye ben deed, and youre lijf is hid with Crist in God.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
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are: Colossians 2:20, Romans 6:2, Galatians 2:20
your: Colossians 3:4, Colossians 1:5, John 3:16, John 4:14, John 5:21, John 5:24, John 5:40, John 6:39, John 6:40, John 10:28-30, John 14:19, Romans 5:10, Romans 5:21, Romans 8:2, Romans 8:34-39, 1 Corinthians 15:45, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Hebrews 7:25, 1 Peter 1:3-5
hid: Colossians 2:3, Matthew 11:25, 1 Corinthians 2:14, Philippians 4:7, 1 Peter 3:4, 1 John 3:2, Revelation 2:17
Reciprocal: Leviticus 13:47 - The garment Deuteronomy 30:20 - thy life Deuteronomy 33:3 - all his saints Joshua 2:6 - hid them 1 Samuel 25:29 - with the Lord Job 29:4 - the secret Psalms 25:14 - secret Psalms 27:5 - hide Psalms 32:7 - my Psalms 42:8 - the God Psalms 66:9 - holdeth Psalms 83:3 - thy hidden Proverbs 8:35 - whoso Isaiah 11:6 - General Matthew 13:44 - like Luke 10:42 - which Luke 16:12 - that which is your Luke 20:38 - for all John 5:26 - so hath John 6:47 - He that John 6:57 - even John 8:35 - but John 11:25 - the life John 14:16 - abide John 17:2 - give Acts 3:15 - Prince Romans 6:8 - we believe Romans 6:11 - but Romans 8:10 - but Romans 8:39 - shall be Galatians 2:19 - dead Ephesians 3:9 - hid 2 Timothy 2:11 - For 1 Peter 1:4 - reserved 1 Peter 2:24 - being 1 Peter 4:1 - for 1 Peter 5:1 - a partaker 1 Peter 5:4 - appear 1 John 3:1 - the world 1 John 4:9 - we 1 John 5:10 - hath the 1 John 5:11 - this Revelation 1:18 - that liveth
Cross-References
And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For ye are dead,.... Not in a natural or corporeal sense, for they were living in the world; nor in a moral sense, for though they had been dead in sins, they were quickened by the grace of God; nor in a legal sense, for all their trespasses were forgiven them; see Colossians 2:13; but they were dead to the law, moral, ceremonial, and judicial, by the body of Christ; and to sin, as to its damning power, through his bearing it in his own body on the tree; and to the world by his cross: and therefore as dead men have nothing to do with the world, and the things of it, so believers being dead with Christ, should have no regard to the rudiments of the world, the ceremonies of the law, and the ordinances of men; to worldly lusts, and to the things that are in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life; but should be dead as to their desires after, affections for, and subjection to these things:
and your life is hid with Christ in God; which is another reason why they should not mind things on earth, but things in heaven. The saint's "life" is either spiritual, and is a life of grace from Christ, a life of faith on him, and a life of communion with him, and may be distinguished into a life of sanctification, both internal and external, and into a life of justification; or eternal, which is a life free from all the sorrows of this, both outward and inward; a life of perfection and pleasure, of vision and enjoyment of God and Christ, and of fellowship with Father, Son, and Spirit, angels and saints, and which will never end. This is "theirs", what they have a right unto, and shall everlastingly enjoy: it is not only promised to them, and prepared and laid up for them, but it is given unto them in Christ; and who has made way for their full possession of it, into which he himself will put them, having power, as Mediator, so to do; and even now they have it, the beginning, pledge, and earnest of it. This is said to be "hid", which denotes the secrecy of it, and is true both of spiritual and eternal life. The spiritual life of the saints is hid from the men of the world, who are alienated from the life of God, are ignorant of the Lord of life, and know nothing of the spirit of life; they are strangers to the nature of this life, and to the food on which believers live, the hidden manna; and to the doctrines of the Gospel, by which they are nourished, these are hid to them that are lost; and to all the joys and pleasures of it: and this is sometimes hid from the saints themselves, when temptations are violent, corruptions prevail, grace is low, and seems to be gone, and God hides his face. Eternal life is also an hidden one from natural men; the things that are eternal, are things unseen by the carnal eye, and not to be conceived of by a carnal heart; and can only be beheld, and that in a very glimmering and imperfect manner, by an eye of faith, which is the evidence of things not seen, the clearest one saints have in this life; for eternal glory and happiness is in part hid from the saints themselves; they see it but through a glass darkly; nor does it appear to themselves, as yet, what that felicity is in its fulness and perfection they shall enjoy. Moreover, this phrase is expressive of the safety, as well as of the value and preciousness of this life, things of worth being hid for security. It is hid, and it is hid "with Christ"; spiritual life is with him, as the head, root, and fountain of it, and so is safe, and can never be lost; because he the head lives, the members shall live also; and as long as it is in him, as the fountain, the streams and supplies of it shall not be wanting to his people; nor can the communication between him and them be ever cut off: eternal life is deposited in his hands by the Father; it is bound up in the bundle of life with the Lord God, and is in him for ever safe: nay, it is not only with Christ, where it is secure enough, but it is with Christ "in God"; Christ is in God, the Father is in the Son, and the Son is in the Father; they are one in nature, and so in power and glory; and this union between them, which is natural and perfect, is the foundation of the security both of the persons, and of the life, spiritual and eternal, of God's elect; see John 10:28. Moreover, this life itself is in God. Not only our natural life is in him; we live and move, and have our being in him; but our spiritual and eternal life: he is the spring of it; it arises originally from him; it was purposed in him; it was promised by him; the scheme of it, or what is called the fellowship of the mystery, was hid in him; it was given by him; he is the fountain of it, and that itself; and therefore the saints can never perish, nor need they fear any enemy.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For ye are dead - Dead to the world; dead to sin; dead to earthly pleasures. On the meaning of the word “dead,” see the Romans 6:2 note; Ephesians 2:1 note. The idea of the apostle is, that as Christ became literally dead in the tomb, so we, in virtue of our connection with him, have become dead to sin, to worldly influences, pleasures, and ambition. Or, in other words, we are to be to them as if we were dead, and they had no more influence over us than the things of earth had over him in the grave; Notes, Romans 6:2.
And your life - There is still life. Though dead to one class of objects, you are alive to others. See the sentiment here expressed, explained at large in the notes at Galatians 2:20.
Is hid with Christ in God - The language here is taken probably from treasure which is “hid” or concealed in a place of security; and the idea is, that eternal life is an invaluable jewel or treasure, which is laid up with Christ in heaven where God is. There it is safely deposited. It has this security, that it is with the Redeemer, and that he is in the presence of God; and thus nothing can reach it or take it away. It is not left with us, or intrusted to our keeping - for then it might be lost as we might lose an invaluable jewel; or it might be wrested from us; or we might be defrauded of it; but it is now laid up far out of our sight, and far from the reach of all our enemies, and with one who can “keep that which we have committed to him against that day;” 2 Timothy 1:12. Our eternal life, therefore, is as secure as it could possibly be made. The true condition of the Christian is, that he is “dead” to this world, but that he has immortal life in prospect, and that is secure, being in the holy keeping of his Redeemer, now in the presence of God. From this it follows that he should regard himself as living for heaven.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Colossians 3:3. For ye are dead — To all hopes of happiness from the present world; and, according to your profession, should feel no more appetite for the things of this life, than he does whose soul is departed into the invisible state.
Your life is hid with Christ in God. — Christ is your treasure; and where your treasure is, there is your heart. Christ lives in the bosom of the Father; as your heart is in him, ye also sit in heavenly places with Christ Jesus. Christ is the life of your souls; and as he is hidden in the bosom of the Father, so are ye, who live through and in him.
