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          DASV: Colossians 2    

1 For I want you to know how much I struggle for you, and for
those at Laodicea, and for those who have not met me face to
face.
2 I want their hearts to be encouraged and united in love,
and to have all riches of confident understanding, and know
the mystery of God, namely Christ,
3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4 I say this so that no one will deceive you with persuasive
arguments.
5 For though I am absent in body, I am with you in the spirit,
rejoicing to see how well ordered you are, and the strength
of your faith in Christ.

6 As you received Christ Jesus as Lord, so walk following him,
7 rooted and built up in him, and firm in your faith, just
as you were taught, overflowing with thankfulness.
8 Make sure that no one deceives you through empty and
deceitful philosophy, according to human tradition, from
the spiritual powers of the world, and not from Christ.
9 For in him dwells all the fullness of the godhead bodily.
10 You are made full in him, who is the head of every ruler
and authority.
11 In him you also were circumcised, not with a circumcision
of the flesh, but the putting off the body of flesh, by
the spiritual circumcision done by Christ.
12 Having been buried with him in baptism, you were also
raised with him through your faith in the power of God,
who raised him from the dead.
13 You, being dead through your sins and the uncircumcision
of your flesh, he made you alive together with him, having
forgiven all your sins;
14 having dropped the charges written against us, which
were contrary to us. He has taken it away by nailing
it to the cross.
15 Disarming the rulers and the authorities, he exposed
them openly, triumphing over them by the cross.
16 Therefore let no one condemn you over food or drink, or
concerning the observing of a feast day, new moon or Sabbath
days.
17 These are only the shadow of the things to come, but the
reality is Christ.
18 Let no one judge you demanding pious self-denial and the
worshipping of the angels, dwelling on visions, yet full
of pride in their fleshly mind.
19 He lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body
is supported and united together through the joints and
ligaments, grows with the growth that comes from God.
20 If you died with Christ from the elemental spirits of
the world, why, as though living in the world, do you
subject yourself to regulations--
21 do not handle, taste, or touch?
22 These are all things which perish with use, being simply
human ideas and teachings.
23 While these things have an appearance of wisdom with
self-imposed worship, false humility, and severe treatment
of the body; but are not of any true value against the
indulgence of the flesh.

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