Colossians 2:1-13 ▼

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

2 That their hearts might be comforted, being joined together in love, and to all the riches of the complete certainty of the understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and the Father, and of Christ;

3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

4 And this I say, lest any mislead you with persuasive arguments.

5 For if also I am away in the flesh but in the Spirit am I with you, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

6 Therefore as ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him:

7 Being rooted and built up in him, and rendered firm in the faith, as ye were taught, abounding in it with gratitude.

8 See ye lest any be carrying you off by philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

9 For in him dwells all the completion of divinity bodily.

10 And ye are completed in him, who is the head of all beginning and power:

11 In whom also were ye circumcised with the circumcision not made by hands, in the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ;

12 Buried together with him in immersion, in which also were ye risen together by the faith of the operation of God, having raised him from the dead.

13 And you, being dead in faults and uncircumcision of the flesh, he made alive together with him, having propitiated to you all faults;