Colossians 3:2 (BSB)
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
From Colossians 3. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Colossians 3:2
- John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Colossians 3:2: 2. Not the things that are on earth. He does not mean, as he does a little afterwards, depraved appetites, which reign in earthly men, nor even riches, or fields, or houses, nor any other things of the present life, which we must use, as though we did not use them, (1 Corinthians 7:30, 31) See Calvin on the Corinthians, vol. 1, p. 257.
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Colossians 3:1-4: The apostle, having described our privileges by Christ in the former part of the epistle, and our discharge from the yoke of the ceremonial law, comes here to press upon us our duty as inferred thence. Though we are made free from the obligation of the ceremonial law, it does not therefore follow that we may live as we list.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Colossians 3:2: Set your affections on things above,.... For unless the affections are set on them, they will never be sought after in a proper manner. The word signifies to mind them, and think on them, to favour and approve of them, to be affectionately desirous of them, and concerned for them; for where the treasure is, the heart should be; and as the saints' best things...
- Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on Colossians 3:2: Verse 2. Set your affection. Marg., "or, mind." Gr., "think of"-- φρονειτε. The thoughts should be occupied about the things where Christ now dwells, where our final home is to be, where our great interests are. Since we are raised from the death of sin, and are made to live anew, the great object of our contemplation should be the heavenly world. Not on things on the earth.