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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.
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face,
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,
that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ,
in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
I tell you this so that no one may deceive you by fine-sounding arguments.
I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments.
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 though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good 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
Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,
Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so 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 established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,
For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,
and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority.
and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.
In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of 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.
having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.
And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
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.
by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.
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 No One Disqualify You
Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.
Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.
These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.
These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to 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.
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 to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from 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 with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations —
These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings.
(referring to things that all perish as they are used) — according to human precepts and teachings?
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.
These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.