Colossians 3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. As it is but foolish childishness that makes children so delight in baubles that they would not leave them for all your lands, so it is but foolish worldliness, and fleshliness, and wickedness, that makes you so much delight in your houses, and lands, and meat, and drink, and ease, and honour, as that you would not part with them for heavenly delights. But what will you do for pleasure when these are gone? Do you not think of that? When your pleasures end in horror, and go out like a taper, the pleasures of the saints are then at their best. (R. Baxter.) Parallel Verses KJV: Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.WEB: Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth. |