Colossians 2
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For I would that ye knew what great
conflict I have for you, and for them at La-odice'a, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
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that their hearts might be comforted,
being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full
assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of
God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
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in whom are hid all the treasures of
wisdom and knowledge.
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And this I say, lest any man should
beguile you with enticing words.
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For though I be absent in the flesh, yet
am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and
the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
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As ye have therefore received Christ
Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
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rooted and built up in him, and
stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein
with thanksgiving.
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Dead but Risen with
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Beware lest any man spoil you through
philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the
rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
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For in him dwelleth all the fulness of
the Godhead bodily.
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And ye are complete in him, which is the
head of all principality and power:
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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:
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buried with him in baptism, wherein also
ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of
God, who hath raised him from the dead. Rom. 6.4
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And you, being dead in your sins and the
uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, Eph.
2.1-5 having forgiven you all trespasses;
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blotting out the handwriting of
ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took
it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; Eph. 2.15
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and having spoiled principalities
and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in
it.
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Let no man therefore judge you in meat,
or in drink, or in respect of a holyday, or of the new moon, or of
the sabbath days: Rom. 14.1-6
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which are a shadow of things to come; but
the body is of Christ.
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Let no man beguile you of your reward in
a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those
things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly
mind,
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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. Eph. 4.16
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Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ
from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world,
are ye subject to ordinances,
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(touch not; taste not; handle
not;
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which all are to perish with the using;)
after the commandments and doctrines of men?
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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.
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