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;
02 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;
03 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom
and knowledge.
04 And this I say, lest any man should beguile
you with enticing words.
05 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.
06 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the
Lord, so walk ye in him:
07 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in
the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding
therein with thanksgiving.
08 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.
09 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.
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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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