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Colossians, Chapter 2

¹ For I want you to know how great a struggle I have on your behalf and for those who are at Laodicea, and for all those who have not^a Lit in the fleshpersonally seen my face, ² that their hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love, and attaining to all the wealth^b Lit of the full assurancethat comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in a true knowledge of God’s mystery, that is, Christ Himself, ³ in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. ⁴ I say this so that no one will delude you with persuasive argument. ⁵ For even though I am absent in body, nevertheless I am with you in spirit, rejoicing^c Lit and seeingto see^d Or your good orderyour good discipline and the stability of your faith in Christ.	1 Col 1:29 Col 4:12 Col 4:13 Col 4:15 Rev 1:11 2 Co1 14:31 Eph 6:22 Col 4:8 Col 2:19 Eph 1:7 Eph 1:18 Eph 3:16 Mat 13:11 Rom 16:25 Eph 3:3 Col 1:26 Col 4:3 3 Isa 11:2 Rom 11:33 4 Eph 4:17 Rom 16:18 5 Co1 5:3 Co1 14:40 Pe1 5:9
⁶ Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so^e Or lead your lifewalk in Him, ⁷ having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established^f Or byin your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing^g One early ms reads in it withwith gratitude.	6 Gal 3:26 Col 1:10 7 Eph 3:17 Co1 3:9 Eph 2:20 Co1 1:8 Eph 4:21
⁸ See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world,^h Lit and notrather than according to Christ. ⁹ For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, ¹⁰ and in Him you have been madeⁱ Lit fullcomplete, and He is the head^j Lit ofover all rule and authority; ¹¹ and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ; ¹² having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. ¹³ When you were dead^k Or by reason ofin your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, ¹⁴ having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. ¹⁵ When He had^l Or divested Himself ofdisarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through^m Or it; i.e. the crossHim.	8 Co1 8:9 Co1 10:12 Gal 5:15 Heb 3:12 Eph 5:6 Col 2:23 Ti1 6:20 Gal 4:3 Col 2:20 9 Co2 5:19 Col 1:19 10 Eph 3:19 Eph 1:21 Co1 15:24 Eph 3:10 Col 2:15 11 Rom 2:29 Eph 2:11 Rom 6:6 Rom 7:24 Gal 5:24 Col 3:5 12 Rom 6:4 Rom 6:5 Eph 2:6 Col 2:13 Col 3:1 Act 2:24 13 Eph 2:1 Eph 2:5 Col 2:12 14 Eph 2:15 Col 2:20 Pe1 2:24 15 Eph 4:8 Joh 12:31 Co1 15:24 Eph 3:10 Col 2:10 Eph 4:8 Co2 2:14
¹⁶ Therefore no one is toⁿ Lit judge youact as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath^o Or daysday— ¹⁷ things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the^p Lit bodysubstance^q Lit of Christbelongs to Christ. ¹⁸ Let no one keep^r Or deciding against youdefrauding you of your prize by delighting in^s Or humilityself-abasement and the worship of the angels,^t Or going into detail abouttaking his stand on visions he has seen,^u Or conceitedinflated without cause by his fleshly mind, ¹⁹ and not holding fast to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and^v Lit bondsligaments, grows with a growth^w Lit of Godwhich is from God.	16 Rom 14:3 Mar 7:19 Rom 14:17 Heb 9:10 Mar 7:19 Rom 14:17 Heb 9:10 Lev 23:2 Rom 14:5 Ch1 23:31 Ch2 31:3 Neh 10:33 Mar 2:27 Gal 4:10 17 Heb 8:5 Heb 10:1 18 Co1 9:24 Php 3:14 Col 2:23 Co1 4:6 Rom 8:7 19 Eph 1:22 Eph 1:23 Eph 4:16
²⁰ If you have died with Christ^x Lit fromto the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as, ²¹ “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!” ²² (which all refer to things destined to perish^y Or by being consumedwith use)—in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men? ²³ These are matters which have, to be sure, the^z Lit report; Gr logosappearance of wisdom in^aa Or would-be religionself-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence.	20 Rom 6:2 Col 2:8 Gal 4:9 Col 2:14 Col 2:16 22 Co1 6:13 Isa 29:13 Mat 15:9 Tit 1:14 23 Col 2:18 Ti1 4:3 Rom 13:14 Ti1 4:8


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