Colossians 2 (TRV)

From Textus Receptus

1 For I want you to know what a great struggle I have for you and for those in Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,

2 that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and to all the riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

4 And this I say lest anyone should deceive you with persuasive words.

5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

6 Therefore, as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,

7 rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, just as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

8 Beware lest anyone rob you through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;

10 and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.

11 In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,

12 buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through the faith in the working of God, who has raised Him from the dead.

13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,

14 having erased the written record of commands that were against us, which was contrary to us. And taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.