Colossians 3:3 “For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.”

Colossians 3:3

For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

American Standard Version

For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

Geneva Bible 1599

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

Darby Translation

for ye have died, and your life is hid with the Christ in God.

Young's Literal Translation

for ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the Christ in God;

Bible in Basic English

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

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Cross references

“are”

Galatians 2:20 Romans 6:2 Colossians 2:20

Galatians 2:20 · BSB

I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

Romans 6:2 · BSB

Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?

Colossians 2:20 · BSB

If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:

“your”

John 5:24 Romans 8:2 Romans 5:10 1 Peter 1:3–5 John 3:16 John 5:21

John 5:24 · BSB

Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.

Romans 8:2 · BSB

For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.

Romans 5:10 · BSB

For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!

1 Peter 1:3–5 · BSB

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

John 3:16 · BSB

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

John 5:21 · BSB

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.

“hid”

1 Peter 3:4 Matthew 11:25 Colossians 2:3 Revelation 2:17 1 Corinthians 2:14 Philippians 4:7

1 Peter 3:4 · BSB

but from the inner disposition of your heart, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.

Matthew 11:25 · BSB

At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.

Colossians 2:3 · BSB

in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Revelation 2:17 · BSB

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will give the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, known only to the one who receiv…

1 Corinthians 2:14 · BSB

The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Philippians 4:7 · BSB

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Also

2 Corinthians 5:14

2 Corinthians 5:14 · BSB

For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

4When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

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