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Colossians 2
1 For I would that ye knew what great conflict I
have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as
many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit
together in love, and unto all riches of the full
assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of
the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and
knowledge.
4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you
with enticing words.
5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with
you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order,
and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.
6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the
Lord, so walk ye in him:
7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the
faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with
thanksgiving.
8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy
and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after
the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead
bodily.
10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of
all principality and power:
11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the
circumcision made without hands, in putting off the
body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of
Christ:
12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are
risen with him through the faith of the operation of
God, who hath raised him from the dead.
13 And you, being dead in your sins and the
uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened
together with him, having forgiven you all
trespasses;
14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that
was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it
out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he
made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in
it.
16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in
drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new
moon, or of the sabbath days:
17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body
is of Christ.
18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a
voluntary humility and worshipping of angels,
intruding into those things which he hath not seen,
vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body
by joints and bands having nourishment ministered,
and knit together, increaseth with the increase of
God.
20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the
rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the
world, are ye subject to ordinances,
21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the
commandments and doctrines of men?
23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will
worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body;
not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
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