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

Other Translations of Colossians 3:3

New International Version

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

English Standard Version

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

The Message

3 Your old life is dead. Your new life, which is your real life - even though invisible to spectators - is with Christ in God. He is your life.

New King James Version

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

New Living Translation

3 For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Colossians 3:3

Commentary on Colossians 3:1-4

(Read Colossians 3:1-4)

As Christians are freed from the ceremonial law, they must walk the more closely with God in gospel obedience. As heaven and earth are contrary one to the other, both cannot be followed together; and affection to the one will weaken and abate affection to the other. Those that are born again are dead to sin, because its dominion is broken, its power gradually subdued by the operation of grace, and it shall at length be extinguished by the perfection of glory. To be dead, then, means this, that those who have the Holy Spirit, mortifying within them the lusts of the flesh, are able to despise earthly things, and to desire those that are heavenly. Christ is, at present, one whom we have not seen; but our comfort is, that our life is safe with him. The streams of this living water flow into the soul by the influences of the Holy Spirit, through faith. Christ lives in the believer by his Spirit, and the believer lives to him in all he does. At the second coming of Christ, there will be a general assembling of all the redeemed; and those whose life is now hid with Christ, shall then appear with him in his glory. Do we look for such happiness, and should we not set our affections upon that world, and live above this?