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Chapter 2 |
| 1 | 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. |
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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. |
| 9 | 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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14 | 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; |
| 15
| 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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20 | 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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21 | (Touch not; taste not; handle not; |
| 22 |
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. |
