{"book":"Colossians","slug":"colossians","ch":2,"genre":"letter","sub":"Colossians","prev":"colossians/1","next":"colossians/3","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"For I want you to know how much I am struggling for you and [for] those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me face to face,","f":[],"h":"Absent in Body, Present in Spirit","style":"reg"},{"v":2,"t":"that they may be encouraged in heart, knit together in love, and filled with [the] full riches of complete understanding, so that they may know the mystery of God, [namely] Christ,","f":["Literally the mystery of God: Christ"]},{"v":3,"t":"in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.","f":[]},{"v":4,"t":"I say this so that no one will deceive you by smooth rhetoric.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":5,"t":"For although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, [and] I delight to see your orderly condition and firm faith in Christ.","f":[]},{"v":6,"t":"Therefore, just as you have received Christ Jesus [as] Lord, continue to walk in Him,","f":[],"h":"Alive with Christ","style":"reg"},{"v":7,"t":"rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, [and] overflowing with thankfulness.","f":[]},{"v":8,"t":"See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition [and] the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":9,"t":"For in [Christ] all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.","f":[]},{"v":10,"t":"And you have been made complete in [Christ], who is the head over every ruler and authority.","f":[]},{"v":11,"t":"In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of [your] sinful nature, with the circumcision [performed] by Christ [and] not by human hands.","f":["Literally in the cutting away of the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ"],"style":"reg"},{"v":12,"t":"And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with [Him] through [your] faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.","f":[]},{"v":13,"t":"[When] you were dead in [your] trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with [Christ]. He forgave us all [our] trespasses,","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":14,"t":"having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!","f":[]},{"v":15,"t":"[And] having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle [of them], triumphing over them by [the cross].","f":[]},{"v":16,"t":"Therefore {let} no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":17,"t":"These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body [ that casts it ] belongs to Christ.","f":["Literally but the body is of the Christ"]},{"v":18,"t":"[Do not let anyone] who delights in [false] humility and [the] worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. [Such a person] is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind.","f":[]},{"v":19,"t":"He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by [its] joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.","f":[]},{"v":20,"t":"If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to [the] world, do you submit to [its] regulations:","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":21,"t":"“ {Do} not handle, {do} not taste, {do} not touch! ”?","f":[]},{"v":22,"t":"[These] will all perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings.","f":[]},{"v":23,"t":"Such [restrictions] indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with [their] self-prescribed worship, [their false] humility, and [their] harsh treatment of [the] body; [but] they are of no value against [the] indulgence of the flesh.","f":[]}]}