Colossians 3:1 (WEB)
If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
Catechism · 2
"I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body"
“If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.” — Catechism footnote: Col 2:12; 3:1.
On the Third Day He Rose from the Dead
“In Christ, Christians "have tasted. . . the powers of the age to come" and their lives are swept up by Christ into the heart of divine life, so that they may "live no longer for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised."” — Catechism footnote: 2 Cor 5:15; cf. Col 3:1-3.
Fathers and councils · 30
Gregory of Nyssa
“…after his extreme devotion to the inspired Scriptures, has not yet heard, “Seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God,” and many similar passages, of which it would not be easy to reckon up the number, but which Eunomius has never learnt, and so denies that the Son is…” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1.
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Jerome
“…then are true, whatsoever are chaste, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things pertain to purity, let us join ourselves to these, let us follow these.” — editor's note: Coloss. ii. 11; iii. 1 sq.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“And the Colossians he taught thus, If ye then be risen with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1.
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Augustine of Hippo
“He then hath gone before: already we also have risen again, but still in hope.” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1, 2.
Read the whole comment“For the arising is with Christ: whence hath been said, “If ye have arisen with Christ, savour ye the things which are above.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1.
Read the whole comment““If ye be risen with Christ,” saith the Apostle to believers, “set your affection on things above, not on things of the earth.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1, 2.
Read the whole comment“To such forsooth are said those words, which we, as partners and sharers with them, ought to listen to.” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1–4
Read the whole comment“…says, “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God; set your thoughts on things above.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1, 2
Read the whole comment“Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1, 2.
Read the whole comment“When Christ your life shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1, etc.
Read the whole comment“For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1–3.
Read the whole comment“To whom truly the apostle says, “If ye be dead with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1–3.
Read the whole comment“In agreement with this the apostle says to us, “If ye be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1.
Read the whole comment“Seek those things which are above, not the things which are on the earth.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1, 2.
Read the whole comment“For certainly it was in the inner and not the outer man that those had risen again to whom he says, “If ye have risen with Christ, mind the things that are above.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1.
Read the whole comment“For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1–3
Read the whole comment“Hear of those that were circumcised with the real stone, while the apostle admonishes them: “If then ye be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting on the right hand of God; set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1, 2.
Read the whole comment“Seek the things which are above, not things which are on earth?”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1, 2.
Read the whole comment“I put off your expectations till now for this reason, that I might explain as I could how it is we come to Christ along the ground, when we are commanded rather to seek the things which are above, not the things which are upon the earth.” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1, 2.
Read the whole comment“Then shall we appear as that which we then shall be; for it shall then be apparent that it was not without good grounds that we believed and hoped we should become so, before it actually took place.” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1–4.
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Basil the Great
“Thou art called to more noble cares; “seek those things which are above where Christ sitteth.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1.
Read the whole comment“…remind ourselves of the grace given to us by standing at prayer, not only because we rose with Christ, and are bound to “seek those things which are above,” but because the day seems to us to be in some sense an image of the age which we expect, wherefore, though it is the beginning of days, it is not called by…” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“But when Christ, who is your life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1–4.
Read the whole comment“But when Christ your life shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1–4.
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Ambrose of Milan
“And further: “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, not those things which are on the earth.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1, 2.
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Tertullian
“Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1, 2.
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Aphrahat
“Let us think upon the things which are above, on the heavenly things, and meditate on them, where Christ has been lifted up and exalted.” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1, 2.
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Leo the Great
“For when Christ, our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1–4.
Read the whole comment“For when Christ, your life, shall have appeared, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 1–4.
Read the whole comment“Minds that have heard the call to be uplifted must not be pressed down by earthly affections, they that are fore-ordained to things eternal must not be taken up with the things that perish; they that have entered on the way of Truth must not be…” — editor's note: Sursum vocatos animos. The allusion no doubt is to the V. Sursum corda. R. habemus ad Dominum, with which the Church Liturgy has always ushered us into the…
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Cross-references · 21
Cited together in Catechism §655.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 30.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 30.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 30.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 30.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 56.
Cited together in The City of God XX.10.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 46 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 74.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 74.
Cited together in The City of God XX.10 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The City of God XX.10.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 46.
Cited together in The City of God XX.10.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 74.
Cited together in Catechism §655.
Cited together in Catechism §655 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §655.
Cited together in Catechism §655.
Cited together in The City of God XX.10.
Cited together in Catechism §1002.