Oct. 21
Colossians 2
Col 2:1 For I desire to
have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at
Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
Col 2:2 that their
hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and
gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they
may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
Col 2:3 in whom are all
the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.
Col 2:4 Now this I say
that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.
Col 2:5 For though I am
absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and
seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
Col 2:6 As therefore
you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,
Col 2:7 rooted and
built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were
taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.
Col 2:8 Be careful that
you don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit,
after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not
after Christ.
Col 2:9 For in him all
the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,
Col 2:10 and in him you
are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;
Col 2:11 in whom you
were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the
putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision
of Christ;
Col 2:12 having been
buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him
through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
Col 2:13 You were dead
through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made
you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
Col 2:14 wiping out the
handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it
out of the way, nailing it to the cross;
Col 2:15 having
stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them
openly, triumphing over them in it.
Col 2:16 Let no man
therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a
feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,
Col 2:17 which are a
shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.
Col 2:18 Let no one rob
you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the
angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed
up by his fleshly mind,
Col 2:19 and not
holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied
and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God's
growth.
Col 2:20 If you died
with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in
the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
Col 2:21 "Don't
handle, nor taste, nor touch"
Col 2:22 (all of which
perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?
Col 2:23 Which things
indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and
severity to the body; but aren't of any value against the indulgence
of the flesh.