Colossians 3:4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

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New International Version
When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

English Standard Version
When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

New American Standard Bible
When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.

King James Bible
When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When the Messiah, who is your life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.

International Standard Version
When the Messiah, who is your life, is revealed, then you, too, will be revealed with him in glory.

American Standard Version
When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When Christ shall appear, who is your life, then you also shall appear with him in glory.

Darby Bible Translation
When the Christ is manifested who is our life, then shall ye also be manifested with him in glory.

Young's Literal Translation
when the Christ -- our life -- may be manifested, then also we with him shall be manifested in glory.

Cross References

Luke 17:30
Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

John 11:25
Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

Romans 8:18
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

Romans 8:19
For the earnest expectation of the creature waits for the manifestation of the sons of God.

1 Corinthians 1:7
So that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

1 Corinthians 15:43
It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:

Galatians 2:20
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Philippians 3:21
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like to his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things to himself.

1 Peter 1:13
Why gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

1 John 2:28
And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

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?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

4. Translate, "When Christ shall be manifested who is our life (Joh 11:25; 14:6, 19), then shall ye also with Him be manifested in glory" (1Pe 4:13). The spiritual life our souls have now in Him shall be extended to our bodies (Ro 8:11).

then—and not till then. Those err who think to find a perfect Church before then. The true Church is now militant. Rome errs in trying to set up a Church now regnant and triumphant. The true Church shall be visible as a perfect and reigning Church, when Christ shall be visibly manifested as her reigning Head. Rome having ceased to look for Him in patient faith, has set up a visible mockhead, a false anticipation of the millennial kingdom. The Papacy took to itself by robbery that glory which is an object of hope, and can only be reached by bearing the cross now. When the Church became a harlot, she ceased to be a bride who goes to meet her Bridegroom. Hence the millennial kingdom ceased to be looked for [Auberlen].