Colossians 3:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If then you have a new life with Christ, give your attention to the things of heaven, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.

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  • Rom 8:6 : 6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:
  • Matt 6:33 : 33 But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.
  • Matt 6:20 : 20 But make a store for yourselves in heaven, where it will not be turned to dust and where thieves do not come in to take it away:
  • Luke 12:33 : 33 Give what property you have in exchange for money, and give the money to the poor; make for yourselves money-bags which will not get old, wealth stored up in heaven which will be yours for ever, where thieves will not come nor worms put it to destruction.
  • 2 Cor 4:18 : 18 While our minds are not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are for a time; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
  • Gal 2:19-20 : 19 For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God. 20 I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.
  • Rom 6:9-9 : 9 Having knowledge that because Christ has come back from the dead, he will never again go down to the dead; death has no more power over him. 10 For his death was a death to sin, but his life now is a life which he is living to God. 11 Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.
  • Luke 22:69 : 69 But in the future the Son of man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.
  • Ps 16:11 : 11 You will make clear to me the way of life; where you are joy is complete; in your right hand there are pleasures for ever and ever.
  • Ps 73:25-26 : 25 Whom have I in heaven but you? and having you I have no desire for anything on earth. 26 My flesh and my heart are wasting away: but God is the Rock of my heart and my eternal heritage.
  • Matt 26:64 : 64 Jesus says to him, You say so: but I say to you, From now you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.
  • Mark 14:62 : 62 And Jesus said, I am: and you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.
  • Rom 8:34 : 34 Who will give a decision against us? It is Christ Jesus who not only was put to death, but came again from the dead, who is now at the right hand of God, taking our part.
  • Eph 2:5-6 : 5 Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation), 6 So that we came back from death with him, and are seated with him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus;
  • Col 2:12-13 : 12 Having been put to death with him in baptism, by which you came to life again with him, through faith in the working of God, who made him come back from the dead. 13 And you, being dead through your sins and the evil condition of your flesh, to you, I say, he gave life together with him, and forgiveness of all our sins;
  • Eph 4:10 : 10 He who went down is the same who went up far over all the heavens so that he might make all things complete.)
  • Phil 3:20-21 : 20 For our country is in heaven; from where the Saviour for whom we are waiting will come, even the Lord Jesus Christ: 21 By whom this poor body of ours will be changed into the image of the body of his glory, in the measure of the working by which he is able to put all things under himself.
  • Eph 1:19-20 : 19 And how unlimited is his power to us who have faith, as is seen in the working of the strength of his power, 20 By which he made Christ come back from the dead, and gave him a place at his right hand in heaven,
  • Col 3:2 : 2 Keep your mind on the higher things, not on the things of earth.
  • Heb 1:3 : 3 Who, being the outshining of his glory, the true image of his substance, supporting all things by the word of his power, having given himself as an offering making clean from sins, took his seat at the right hand of God in heaven;
  • Heb 1:13 : 13 But of which of the angels has he said at any time, Take your seat at my right hand till I put all those who are against you under your feet?
  • Heb 8:1 : 1 Now of the things we are saying this is the chief point: We have such a high priest, who has taken his place at the right hand of God's high seat of glory in heaven,
  • Heb 10:12 : 12 But when Jesus had made one offering for sins for ever, he took his place at the right hand of God;
  • Heb 12:2 : 2 Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power.
  • Mark 16:19 : 19 So then the Lord Jesus, after he had said these words to them, was taken up into heaven and took his seat at the right hand of God.
  • Ps 110:1 : 1 <A Psalm. Of David.> The Lord said to my lord, Be seated at my right hand, till I put all those who are against you under your feet.
  • Acts 2:34 : 34 For David has not gone up into heaven, but says, himself, The Lord said to my Lord, Be seated at my right hand,
  • Luke 20:42 : 42 For David himself says in the book of Psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, Take your seat at my right hand,
  • Acts 7:55 : 55 But he was full of the Holy Spirit, and looking up to heaven, he saw the glory of God and Jesus at the right hand of God.
  • Rom 6:4-5 : 4 We have been placed with him among the dead through baptism into death: so that as Christ came again from the dead by the glory of the Father, we, in the same way, might be living in new life. 5 For, if we have been made like him in his death, we will, in the same way, be like him in his coming to life again;
  • Matt 22:44 : 44 The Lord said to my Lord, Be seated at my right hand, till I put under your feet all those who are against you?
  • Mark 12:36 : 36 David himself said in the Holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, Be seated at my right hand, till I put those who are against you under your feet.
  • 1 Pet 3:22 : 22 Who has gone into heaven, and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been put under his rule.
  • Heb 11:13-16 : 13 All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth. 14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are searching for a country for themselves. 15 And truly if they had kept in mind the country from which they went out, they would have had chances of turning back. 16 But now their desire is for a better country, that is to say, for one in heaven; and so it is no shame to God to be named their God; for he has made ready a town for them.
  • Col 2:20 : 20 If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

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    2Keep your mind on the higher things, not on the things of earth.

    3For your life on earth is done, and you have a secret life with Christ in God.

    4At the coming of Christ who is our life, you will be seen with him in glory.

    5Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;

  • Eph 1:20-21
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    20By which he made Christ come back from the dead, and gave him a place at his right hand in heaven,

    21Far over all rule and authority and power and every name which is named, not only in the present order, but in that which is to come:

  • Eph 2:5-6
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    5Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),

    6So that we came back from death with him, and are seated with him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus;

  • Phil 3:20
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    20For our country is in heaven; from where the Saviour for whom we are waiting will come, even the Lord Jesus Christ:

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    22Who has gone into heaven, and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been put under his rule.

  • Rom 6:8-9
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    8But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him;

    9Having knowledge that because Christ has come back from the dead, he will never again go down to the dead; death has no more power over him.

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    12Having been put to death with him in baptism, by which you came to life again with him, through faith in the working of God, who made him come back from the dead.

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    9And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

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    11If in any way I may have the reward of life from the dead.

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    20If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

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    9You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.

    10And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

    11But if the Spirit of him who made Jesus come again from the dead is in you, he who made Christ Jesus come again from the dead will in the same way, through his Spirit which is in you, give life to your bodies which now are under the power of death.

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    14For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.

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    12Now if the good news says that Christ came back from the dead, how do some of you say that there is no coming back from the dead?

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  • Rom 6:4-5
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    4We have been placed with him among the dead through baptism into death: so that as Christ came again from the dead by the glory of the Father, we, in the same way, might be living in new life.

    5For, if we have been made like him in his death, we will, in the same way, be like him in his coming to life again;

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    69But in the future the Son of man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.

  • Eph 1:3
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    3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given us every blessing of the Spirit in the heavens in Christ:

  • Eph 4:9-10
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    16For if it is not possible for the dead to come to life again, then Christ has not come to life again:

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    34Who will give a decision against us? It is Christ Jesus who not only was put to death, but came again from the dead, who is now at the right hand of God, taking our part.

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    29And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and yours is the heritage by the right of God's undertaking given to Abraham.

  • 1 Pet 1:21
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    21Who through him have faith in God who took him up again from the dead into glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

  • Eph 2:1
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    1And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,

  • Acts 2:34
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    34For David has not gone up into heaven, but says, himself, The Lord said to my Lord, Be seated at my right hand,

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    19If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most unhappy.

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    23And you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

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    9For this reason God has put him in the highest place and has given to him the name which is greater than every name;

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    17So that Christ may have his place in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and based in love,

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    9And for this purpose Christ went into death and came back again, that he might be the Lord of the dead and of the living.

  • Rom 6:11
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    11Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.

  • 2 Cor 4:14
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    14Because we are certain that he who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead, will do the same for us, and will give us a place in his glory with you.

  • Col 1:18
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    18And he is the head of the body, the church: the starting point of all things, the first to come again from the dead; so that in all things he might have the chief place.

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  • Eph 4:20
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    20For this was not the teaching of Christ which was given to you;

  • 1 Cor 1:30
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    30But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:

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    27For all those of you who were given baptism into Christ did put on Christ.