Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Colossians 3:2

“Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.”

Colossians 3:2 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Colossians 3:2, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Colossians 3. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

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

2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

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

4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • 1 John 2:15Love 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.
  • 1 Chronicles 22:19Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of…
  • Colossians 3:1If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
  • Matthew 16:23But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
  • Romans 8:4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
  • Matthew 6:19Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
  • Psalms 119:36Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
  • Colossians 3:5Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
  • Philippians 3:19Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
  • Luke 12:15And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
  • Psalms 62:10Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
  • Philippians 1:23For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
  • Psalms 91:14Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
  • Luke 16:11If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

More to meet God in Colossians

Colossians 3:23Colossians 1:16Colossians 3:13Colossians 3:15Colossians 1:23Colossians 3:16Colossians 1:28Colossians 3:11Colossians 3:12Colossians 2:2Colossians 1:12Colossians 1:10Colossians 2:18Colossians 2:16

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.