Colossians:2

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* For I want you to know how great a struggle I have concerning you and those in Laodicea , and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh , * that their hearts may be encouraged , being joined together in love , and to all riches of the full assurance of understanding , to a full knowledge of the mystery of God , both of the Father and of Christ , * in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge . * Now this I say lest anyone may deceive you with persuasive words . * For though indeed I am absent in the flesh , yet I am with you in spirit , rejoicing to see your orderliness and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ . * Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord , so walk in Him , * having been rooted and built up in Him and being established in the faith , just as you were taught , abounding in it with thanksgiving . * Beware lest anyone captures you through philosophy and empty deceit , according to the tradition of men , according to the basic principles of the world , and not according to Christ . * For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily ; * and you are completed in Him , who is the head of all principality and power . * In whom you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands , by the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh , by the circumcision of Christ , * having been buried together with Him in baptism , in which also you were raised together through faith in the working of God , who raised Him from the dead . * And you , being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh , He made you alive together with Him , having forgiven us all our trespasses , * having blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us , which was contrary to us , and He has taken it out of the midst , nailing it to the cross . * [And h ]aving disarmed principalities and powers , He mocked them in public , triumphing over them in it . * Therefore do not let anyone judge you in food or in drink , or regarding a festival or of a new moon or of sabbaths , * which are a shadow of things to come , but the body is of Christ . * Let no one rule against you , desiring [to do so ] in [false ] humility and in worship of the angels , intruding into those things which he has not seen , in vain being puffed up by his carnal mind , * and not holding fast to the Head , from whom all the body , supported and joined together by joints and ligaments , grows with the growth of God . * If you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world , why , as though living in the world , do you submit to regulations - * "Do not handle , nor taste , nor touch ," * which things are all for corruption with the using , according to the commands and teaching of men ? * These things indeed have a reputation of wisdom in self-imposed religion , false humility , and severity [on the ] body , but [are ] not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh .

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