Colossians 2:1-13 ▼

1 For I wish you knew how great my concern is for you, and for those of Laodicea, and for such as have never seen me in person:

2 that their hearts might be comforted, and that being firmly united in love, they might possess the highest and fullest persuasion of the truth of this doctrine, by entring into this mystery, even of God the father, and of Christ,

3 in whom are reserv'd all the treasures of wd om and knowledge.

4 I mention this, lest any one should deceive you by specious pretences.

5 for tho' I am absent in person, yet I am present with you in my mind, and am glad to perceive the regularily of your affairs, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

6 continue therefore to follow the doctrine of our Lord Jesus Christ, as you have receiv'd it:

7 being firmly attach'd to, and founded upon him: establishing yourselves in the faith you have been taught, and being thankful for the improvement you make therein.

8 beware lest any one seduce you by the vain illusions of philosophy, founded upon human traditions, and meer shadows, and not upon Christ:

9 for in him all divine plenitude does substantially reside.

10 and ye are filled by him, who is the chief of all principality and power:

11 by whom also ye have obtain'd the true spiritual circumcision, not effected by men, when you were by a christian circumcision divested of all your carnal affections,

12 which were buried (as Christ was) in your baptism, by virtue of which you rise (as he did) to a new life, through a belief of that divine power, which raised him from the dead.

13 Even you, who were in a dying sinful state, and were uncircumcised Gentiles, has God raised to life, as he did Christ, having pardoned all your sins: