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Colossians 2 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

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You Are Built Up in Christ

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:1 - For I want you to know how great a struggle I have on your behalf and for those who are at Laodicea, and for all those who have not [fn]personally seen my face,

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:2 - that their hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love, and attaining to all the wealth [fn]that comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in a true knowledge of God’s mystery, that is, Christ Himself,

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:3 - in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:4 - I say this so that no one will delude you with persuasive argument.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:5 - For even though I am absent in body, nevertheless I am with you in spirit, rejoicing [fn]to see [fn]your good discipline and the stability of your faith in Christ.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:6 - Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so [fn]walk in Him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:7 - having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established [fn]in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing [fn]with gratitude.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:8 - See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, [fn]rather than according to Christ.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:9 - For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form,

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:10 - and in Him you have been made [fn]complete, and He is the head [fn]over all rule and authority;

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:11 - and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ;

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:12 - having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:13 - When you were dead [fn]in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions,

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:14 - having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:15 - When He had [fn]disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through [fn]Him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:16 - Therefore no one is to [fn]act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath [fn]day—

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:17 - things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the [fn]substance [fn]belongs to Christ.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:18 - Let no one keep [fn]defrauding you of your prize by delighting in [fn]self-abasement and the worship of the angels, [fn]taking his stand on visions he has seen, [fn]inflated without cause by his fleshly mind,

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:19 - and not holding fast to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and [fn]ligaments, grows with a growth [fn]which is from God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:20 - If you have died with Christ [fn]to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as,

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:21 - “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:22 - (which all refer to things destined to perish [fn]with use)—in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men?

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:23 - These are matters which have, to be sure, the [fn]appearance of wisdom in [fn]self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence.
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NASB95 Footnotes
Literally: in the flesh
Literally: of the full assurance
Literally: and seeing
Or, your good order
Or, lead your life
Or, by
One early ms reads in it with
Literally: and not
Literally: full
Literally: of
Or, by reason of
Or, divested Himself of
Or, it; i.e. the cross
Literally: judge you
Or, days
Literally: body
Literally: of Christ
Or, deciding against you
Or, humility
Or, going into detail about
Or, conceited
Literally: bonds
Literally: of God
Literally: from
Or, by being consumed
Literally: report; Gr logos
Or, would-be religion
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Colossians Chapter 2 — Additional Translations:

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