Colossians:2:6-23

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* As therefore ye have received the Christ , Jesus the Lord , walk in him , * 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 him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily ; * 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 ; * 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 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 . * Let none therefore judge you in meat or in drink , or in matter of feast , or new moon , or sabbaths , * which are a shadow of things to come ; but the body [is ] of Christ . * 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 , * 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 . * 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 ? * Do not handle , do not taste , do not touch , * (things which are all for destruction in the using [of them ]:) according to the injunctions and teachings of men , * (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 .

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