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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.
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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;
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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;
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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.
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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,
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(Touch not; taste not; handle not;
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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.
CHAPTER 3
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right
hand of God.
2
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
3
For ye are dead,
and your life is hid with Christ in God.
4
When Christ,
who is
our life, shall appear, then shall ye
also appear with him in glory.
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