Colossians:2:6-23

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* As therefore you received Christ Jesus , the Lord , walk in him , * rooted and built up in him , and established in the faith , even as you were taught , abounding in it in thanksgiving . * Be careful that you don 't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit , after the tradition of men , after the elements of the world , and not after Christ . * For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily , * and in him you are made full , who is the head of all principality and power ; * in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands , in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh , in the circumcision of Christ ; * having been buried with him in baptism , in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God , who raised him from the dead . * You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh . He made you alive together with him , having forgiven us all our trespasses , * wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us ; and he has taken it out of the way , nailing it to the cross ; * having stripped the principalities and the powers , he made a show of them openly , triumphing over them in it . * Let no one therefore judge you in eating , or in drinking , or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day , * which are a shadow of the things to come ; but the body is Christ 's . * Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels , dwelling in the things which he has not seen , vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind , * and not holding firmly to the Head , from whom all the body , being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments , grows with God 's growth . * If you died with Christ from the elements of the world , why , as though living in the world , do you subject yourselves to ordinances , * "Don 't handle , nor taste , nor touch " * (all of which perish with use ), according to the precepts and doctrines of men ? * Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship , and humility , and severity to the body ; but aren 't of any value against the indulgence of the flesh .

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