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<span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>That their hearts may be comforted, being knit together in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of understanding to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And this I say, lest any man should deceive you with enticing words. <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the steadfastness 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 ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Beware lest any man make a prey of you through 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 fullness of the Godhead bodily. <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And ye are complete in him, 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 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: <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Buried with him in baptism, in which also ye are raised with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he made alive together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Blotting out the hand-writing of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And having despoiled principalities and 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 food, or in drink, or in respect of a holy-day, or or the new-moon, or of the sabbaths: <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshiping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not 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 the head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Wherefore, if ye are dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>(Touch not; taste not; handle not; <span class="reftext"><a href="/colossians/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Which all are to perish with the using;) according to the commandments 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 neglecting of the body; not in any honor to the satisfying of the flesh.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Webster Bible Translation<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../colossians/1.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Colossians 1"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Colossians 1" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../colossians/3.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Colossians 3"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Colossians 3" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/colossians/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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