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Colossians 2 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:1 - For I want you to know how greatly I strive for you, and for those at La-odice'a, and for all who have not seen my face,

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:2 - that their hearts may be encouraged as they are knit together in love, to have all the riches of assured understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, of Christ,

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:4 - I say this in order that no one may delude you with beguiling speech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:5 - For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:6 - As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so live in him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:7 - rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:8 - See to it that no one makes a prey of you by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:9 - For in him the whole fulness of deity dwells bodily,

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:10 - and you have come to fulness of life in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:11 - In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of flesh in the circumcision of Christ;

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:12 - and you were 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:13 - And you, who were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:14 - having canceled the bond which stood against us with its legal demands; this he set aside, nailing it to the cross.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:15 - He disarmed the principalities and powers and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:16 - Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a sabbath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:17 - These are only a shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:18 - Let no one disqualify you, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, taking his stand on visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:19 - and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:20 - If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the universe, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations,

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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 - (referring to things which all perish as they are used), according to human precepts and doctrines?

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:23 - These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting rigor of devotion and self-abasement and severity to the body, but they are of no value in checking the indulgence of the flesh.
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Source: Transcribed from: The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version containing the Old and New Testaments, translated from the original tongues: being the version set forth A.D. 1611, revised A.D. 1881-1885 and A.D. 1901: compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1946-52. — 2nd ed. of New Testament A.D. 1971. There should be enough in the rest of the description to identify the text.

Language: English

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Colossians Chapter 2 — Additional Translations:

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