Colossians:2

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* For I would have you know what a great struggle I have for you , and for those in Laodicea , and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh ; * that their hearts may be encouraged , they being knit together in love , and that they may attain to all the riches of a full assurance of the understanding , to the full knowledge of the mystery of God ; * in which are stored up all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge . * And this I say , that no one may impose on you by specious discourses . * For though I am absent in the flesh , yet in the spirit I am with you , rejoicing and beholding your order , and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ . * As therefore ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord , walk in him , * rooted and built up in him , and established in the faith , as ye have been taught , abounding therein with thanksgiving . * Beware lest there be some one who shall make a prey of you through philosophy and vain deceit , according to the tradition of men , according to the rudiments of the world , and not according to Christ . * For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily , * and ye are made full in him , who is the head of all principality and power ; * in whom also ye have been circumcised with a circumcision not performed by hand , in putting off the body of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ , * having been buried with him in your baptism ; in which also ye were raised to life with him through faith in the working of God , who raised him from the dead ; * and to you also who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh , hath he given life together with him , having forgiven us all our trespasses ; * blotting out the handwriting in ordinances that was against us , which was opposed to us , he hath taken it out of the way , nailing it to the cross ; * and having disarmed principalities and powers , he made a public show of them , and led them captive in triumph in him . * Let no one then call you to account about food or drink , or a feast –day , or a new moon , or sabbaths ; * which are a shadow of the things to come , but the body is Christ ’s . * Let no one defraud you of the prize , desiring to do it in humiliation and worshipping of the angels , intruding into those things which he hath not seen , puffed up without reason by the mind of his own flesh , * and not holding fast the Head , from which the whole body , supported and compacted by means of the joints and ligaments , groweth with an increase wrought by God . * If ye died with Christ to the rudiments of the world , why , as though living in the world , do ye subject yourselves to ordinances , such as , * Handle not , Taste not , Touch not , * (which all are to perish with the using ,) after the commandments and teachings of men ; * which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will –worship and humiliation and severity to the body , not in any honor for the satisfying of the flesh .

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