Colossians 2:1-10 ▼

1 For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,

2 that their hearts may be comforted, being united in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the secret of the God and Father, and of the Christ,

3 in whom are all the treasures of the wisdom and the knowledge hid,

4 and this I say, that no one may deceive you with enticing words,

5 for if even in the flesh I am absent—yet in the spirit I am with you, rejoicing and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in regard to Christ;

6 as, then, you received Christ Jesus the LORD, walk in Him,

7 being rooted and built up in Him, and confirmed in the faith, as you were taught—abounding in it in thanksgiving.

8 See that no one will be carrying you away as spoil through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

9 because in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily,

10 and you are made full in Him, who is the head of all principality and authority,