11 translations · Greek
Colossians 3:3
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Colossians 3:3 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
- KJV King James Version
- For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
- ASV American Standard Version
- For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- for you died, and your life has been hid with the Christ in God;
- FBV Free Bible Version
- You died, and your life is kept safe with Christ in God.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- for ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the Christ in God;
- DBY Darby Translation
- for ye have died, and your life is hid with the Christ in God.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- For you are dead; and your life is hid with Christ in God.
The Greek words
Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀπεθάνετε | apethanete | you died | G599 ἀποθνήσκω to die |
| γάρ | gar | For | G1063 γάρ for |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 καί and |
| ἡ | hē | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ζωὴ | zōē | life | G2222 ζωή life |
| ὑμῶν | hymōn | your | G4771 σύ you |
| κέκρυπται | kekryptai | is now hidden | G2928 κρύπτω to hide |
| σὺν | syn | with | G4862 σύν with |
| τῷ | tō | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| Χριστῷ | Christō | Christ | G5547 Χριστός Christ |
| ἐν | en | in | G1722 ἐν in/on/among |
| τῷ | tō | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| Θεῷ | Theō | God | G2316 θεός God |
Related verses
- Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
- Romans 6:2
May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
- Colossians 2:20
If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
- John 5:24
“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
- Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
- Romans 5:10
For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
- 1 Peter 1:3–5
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you, who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
- 2 Corinthians 5:14
For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, 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 whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
- John 5:21
For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
1 If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
4 When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
5 Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
Read all of Colossians 3 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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