Bible Strands
Colossians 3:3
For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Paul writes to the Colossian church, bracketing this verse between the command to set minds on things above (3:2) and the promise of appearing with Christ in glory (3:4).
The words — κεκρυμμένη (kekrymmene, "has been hidden") is perfect passive: the hiding is a completed act with a present, ongoing result, not a temporary concealment.
The thread — The same "died with Christ" logic undergirds Galatians 2:20 ("I have been crucified with Christ"), Romans 6:2 ("How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?"), and Colossians 2:20 ("If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world").
Why it lands — The verse does not ask the reader to feel a new life; it states that the life is already secured in a place beyond sight, and the practical demand is to stop managing existence from the visible, earthly level.
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The Greek words
King James Version
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Cross-references
- Galatians 2:20 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 Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?
- Colossians 2:20 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:
- John 5:24 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 For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.
- Romans 5:10 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 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,
- 2 Corinthians 5:14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
- John 3:16 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 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.