Col 2:1-18
1 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;
2 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;
3 In
whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4 And this I say,
lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
5 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.
6 As ye have therefore received
Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
7 Rooted and built up in him, and
stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with
thanksgiving.
8 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.
9 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.
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,
(KJV)