Sha'ul�s Letter to the Colossians, Chapter 2
{2:1} For I desire to have you know how greatly I strive for you,
and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in
the flesh; {2:2} that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit
together in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of
understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the
Father and of Messiah, {2:3} in whom are all the treasures of wisdom
and knowledge hidden. {2:4} Now this I say that no one may delude you
with persuasiveness of speech. {2:5} For though I am absent in the
flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your
order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Messiah. {2:6} As
therefore you received Messiah Yeshua, the Lord, walk in him, {2:7}
rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you
were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving. {2:8} Be careful that
you don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit,
after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not
after Messiah. {2:9} For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells
bodily, {2:10} and in him you are made full, who is the head of all
principality and power; {2:11} in whom you were also circumcised with
a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of
the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Messiah; {2:12} having
been buried with him in immersion, in which you were also raised with
him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
{2:13} You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of
your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us
all our trespasses; {2:14} having blotted out the bond written in
ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he has
taken it out that way, nailing it to the cross; {2:15} having stripped
the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly,
triumphing over them in it. {2:16} Let no man therefore judge you in
eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon
or Shabbat, {2:17} which are a shadow of the things to come; but the
body is Messiah's. {2:18} Let no man rob you of your prize by a
voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the
things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
{2:19} and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body,
being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments,
grows with God's growth. {2:20} If you died with Messiah from the
elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you
subject yourselves to ordinances, {2:21} "Don't handle, nor taste, nor
touch" {2:22} (all which things are to perish with the using), after
the precepts and doctrines of men? {2:23} Which things indeed appear
like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the
body; but aren't of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.
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