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Colossians 2

Not Philosophy but Christ

For I want you to know what a great ^aconflict¹ I have for you and those in Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, 2 that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, ¹both of the Father and of Christ, 3 ^ain whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4 Now this I say ^alest anyone should deceive you with persuasive words. 5 For ^athough I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing ¹to see ^byour good order and the ^csteadfastness of your faith in Christ.
6 ^aAs you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, 7 ^arooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding ¹in it with thanksgiving.
8 Beware lest anyone ¹cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to ^athe tradition of men, according to the ^bbasic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. 9 For ^ain Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead ¹bodily; 10 and you are complete in Him, who is the ^ahead of all ¹principality and power.

Not Legalism but Christ

11 In Him you were also ^acircumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by ^bputting off the body ¹of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 ^aburied with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through ^bfaith in the working of God, ^cwho raised Him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 ^ahaving wiped out the ¹handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 ^aHaving disarmed ^bprincipalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
16 So let no one ^ajudge you in food or in drink, or regarding a ¹festival or a new moon or sabbaths, 17 ^awhich are a shadow of things to come, but the ¹substance is of Christ. 18 Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has ¹not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19 and not holding fast to ^athe Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, ^bgrows with the increase that is from God.
20 ¹Therefore, if you ^adied with Christ from the basic principles of the world, ^bwhy, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations— 21 ^a“Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,” 22 which all concern things which perish with the using—^aaccording to the commandments and doctrines of men? 23 ^aThese things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and ¹neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.

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