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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 personally
seen
my face,
2
that their hearts
may be encouraged,
having been knit together
in love,
and attaining to all
the wealth
that 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
to see
your good discipline
and the stability
of your faith
in Christ.
6
Therefore
as you have received
Christ
Jesus
the Lord,
so walk
in Him,
7
having been firmly rooted
and now being built
up in Him and established
in your faith,
just
as you were instructed,
and overflowing
with gratitude.
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,
rather
than
according
to Christ.
9
For in Him all
the fullness
of Deity
dwells
in bodily form,
10
and in Him you have been
made complete,
and He is the head
over 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
in 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 disarmed
the rulers
and authorities,
He made
a public
display
of them, having triumphed over
them through
Him.
16
Therefore
no
one
is to act as your judge
in regard to food
or
drink
or
in respect
to a festival
or
a new moon
or
a Sabbath
day--
17
things which
are a mere shadow
of what is to come;
but the substance
belongs to Christ.
18
Let no one
keep defrauding you of your prize
by delighting
in self-abasement
and the worship
of the angels,
taking his stand
on visions he has seen,
inflated
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 ligaments,
grows
with a growth
which is from God.
20
If
you have died
with Christ
to 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
with use)--
in accordance
with the commandments
and teachings
of men?
23
These
are matters
which
have,
to be sure,
the appearance
of wisdom
in self-made religion
and self-abasement
and severe treatment
of the body,
but are of no
value
against
fleshly
indulgence.
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