Colossians 2:6-23.
Colossians 2:6-23 (Good News Translation)
6Since you have accepted Christ Jesus as Lord, live in union with him.
7Keep your roots deep in him, build your lives on him, and
become stronger in your faith, as you were taught. And be filled with
thanksgiving.
8See to it, then, that no one enslaves you by means of the
worthless deceit of human wisdom, which comes from the teachings handed
down by human beings and from the ruling spirits of the universe, and not
from Christ.
9For the full content of divine nature lives in Christ, in his
humanity,
10and you have been given full life in union with him. He is
supreme over every spiritual ruler and authority.
11In union with Christ you were circumcised, not with the
circumcision that is made by human beings, but with the circumcision made
by Christ, which consists of being freed from the power of this sinful
self.
12For when you were baptized, you were buried with Christ, and
in baptism you were also raised with Christ through your faith in the
active power of God, who raised him from death.
13You were at one time spiritually dead because of your sins
and because you were Gentiles without the Law. But God has now brought you
to life with Christ. God forgave us all our sins;
14he canceled the unfavorable record of our debts with its
binding rules and did away with it completely by nailing it to the cross.
15And on that cross Christ freed himself from the power of the
spiritual rulers and authorities;
he made a public spectacle of them by leading them as captives
in his victory procession.
16So let no one make rules about what you eat or drink or about
holy days or the New Moon Festival or the Sabbath.
17All such things are only a shadow of things in the future;
the reality is Christ.
18Do not allow yourselves to be condemned by anyone who claims
to be superior because of special visions and who insists on false
humility and the worship of angels. For no reason at all, such people are
all puffed up by their human way of thinking
19and have stopped holding on to Christ, who is the head of the
body. Under Christ's control the whole body is nourished and held together
by its joints and ligaments, and it grows as God wants it to grow.
20You have died with Christ and are set free from the ruling
spirits of the universe. Why, then, do you live as though you belonged to
this world? Why do you obey such rules as
21Don't handle this,
Don't taste that,
Don't touch the other?
22All these refer to things which become useless once they are
used; they are only human rules and teachings.
23Of course such rules appear to be based on wisdom in their
forced worship of angels, and false humility, and severe treatment of the
body; but they have no real value in controlling physical passions.
God bless you.
6Since you have accepted Christ Jesus as Lord, live in union with him.
7Keep your roots deep in him, build your lives on him, and
become stronger in your faith, as you were taught. And be filled with
thanksgiving.
8See to it, then, that no one enslaves you by means of the
worthless deceit of human wisdom, which comes from the teachings handed
down by human beings and from the ruling spirits of the universe, and not
from Christ.
9For the full content of divine nature lives in Christ, in his
humanity,
10and you have been given full life in union with him. He is
supreme over every spiritual ruler and authority.
11In union with Christ you were circumcised, not with the
circumcision that is made by human beings, but with the circumcision made
by Christ, which consists of being freed from the power of this sinful
self.
12For when you were baptized, you were buried with Christ, and
in baptism you were also raised with Christ through your faith in the
active power of God, who raised him from death.
13You were at one time spiritually dead because of your sins
and because you were Gentiles without the Law. But God has now brought you
to life with Christ. God forgave us all our sins;
14he canceled the unfavorable record of our debts with its
binding rules and did away with it completely by nailing it to the cross.
15And on that cross Christ freed himself from the power of the
spiritual rulers and authorities;
he made a public spectacle of them by leading them as captives
in his victory procession.
16So let no one make rules about what you eat or drink or about
holy days or the New Moon Festival or the Sabbath.
17All such things are only a shadow of things in the future;
the reality is Christ.
18Do not allow yourselves to be condemned by anyone who claims
to be superior because of special visions and who insists on false
humility and the worship of angels. For no reason at all, such people are
all puffed up by their human way of thinking
19and have stopped holding on to Christ, who is the head of the
body. Under Christ's control the whole body is nourished and held together
by its joints and ligaments, and it grows as God wants it to grow.
20You have died with Christ and are set free from the ruling
spirits of the universe. Why, then, do you live as though you belonged to
this world? Why do you obey such rules as
21Don't handle this,
Don't taste that,
Don't touch the other?
22All these refer to things which become useless once they are
used; they are only human rules and teachings.
23Of course such rules appear to be based on wisdom in their
forced worship of angels, and false humility, and severe treatment of the
body; but they have no real value in controlling physical passions.
God bless you.
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