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I want you to know how hard I am contending for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me personally.
Built Up in Christ
For I would have you know what combat I have for you, and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in flesh;
For I would have you know what combat I have for you, and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in flesh;
My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ,
to the end that their hearts may be encouraged, being united together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to [the] full knowledge of the mystery of God;
in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
in which are hid all the treasures of wisdom and of knowledge.
I tell you this so that no one may deceive you by fine-sounding arguments.
And I say this to the end that no one may delude you by persuasive speech.
For though I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit and delight to see how disciplined you are and how firm your faith in Christ is.
For if indeed in the flesh I am absent, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the firmness of your faith in Christ.
Spiritual Fullness in Christ
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him,
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him,
Alive in Christ
As therefore ye have received the Christ, Jesus the Lord, walk in him,
As therefore ye have received the Christ, Jesus the Lord, walk in him,
rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
rooted and built up in him, and assured in the faith, even as ye have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.
See that there be no one who shall lead *you* away as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the teaching of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,
For in him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily;
and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority.
and ye are complete in him, who is the head of all principality and authority,
in whom also ye have been circumcised with circumcision not done by hand, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of the Christ;
having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
buried with him in baptism, in which ye have been also raised with [him] through faith of the working of God who raised him from among the dead.
And you, being dead in offences and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has quickened together with him, having forgiven us all the offences;
having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.
having effaced the handwriting in ordinances which [stood out] against us, which was contrary to us, he has taken it also out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;
having spoiled principalities and authorities, he made a show of them publicly, leading them in triumph by it.
Freedom From Human Rules
Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day.
Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day.
Let none therefore judge you in meat or in drink, or in matter of feast, or new moon, or sabbaths,
These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.
which are a shadow of things to come; but the body [is] of Christ.
Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind.
Let no one fraudulently deprive you of your prize, doing his own will in humility and worship of angels, entering into things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,
They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.
and not holding fast the head, from whom all the body, ministered to and united together by the joints and bands, increases with the increase of God.
Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules:
If ye have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why as [if] alive in [the] world do ye subject yourselves to ordinances?
These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings.
(things which are all for destruction in the using [of them]:) according to the injunctions and teachings of men,
Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.
(which have indeed an appearance of wisdom in voluntary worship, and humility, and harsh treatment of the body, not in a certain honour,) to [the] satisfaction of the flesh.