Colossians 2:1-13 ▼

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

2 that their hearts may be comforted, they being firmly united in love in order to gain all the riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may acknowledge the mystery of God, even the Father, and of Christ,

3 in whom are stored up all the treasures of wisdom and of knowledge.

4 Now I say this, that no one may deceive you by persuasive words.

5 For, though I am absent in flesh, yet I am present with you in spirit, rejoicing to behold your order, and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

6 As, therefore, you received Christ Jesus our Lord, so walk in him,

7 rooted, and built up in him, and strengthened in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

8 See that no one make you the victims of imposture by means of philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ:

9 for in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhood bodily.

10 And you are complete in him who is the head of all principality and authority:

11 in whom you have been also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,

12 when you were buried with him in immersion, in which you were also raised with him by your faith in the energy of God, who raised him from the dead.

13 And you, being dead to your offenses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has made alive together with him, having forgiven you all your offenses;