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<span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, even Christ, <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden. <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>This I say, that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech. <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For though I am 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.</p> <p class="hdg">Alive in Christ</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord,'so walk in him, <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>rooted and builded up in him, and established in your faith, even as ye were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ: <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and in him ye are made full, who is the head of all principality and power: <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ; <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>having been buried with him in baptism, wherein ye were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And you, being dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you, I say , did he make alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses; <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out that way, nailing it to the cross; <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>having despoiled the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day: <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's. <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Let no man rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he hath seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and not holding fast the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increasing with the increase of God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances, <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Handle not, nor taste, nor touch <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>(all which things are to perish with the using), after the precepts and doctrines of men? <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will-worship, and humility, and severity to the body; 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