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Are Built Up in Christ |
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Colossians 2:1
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For I want you to know how great a struggle
I have on your behalf and for those who are at Laodicea, and for all those who
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Colossians 2:2
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that their hearts may be encouraged, having
been knit together in love, and attaining to all the wealth that comes from the
full assurance of understanding, resulting in a true knowledge of God's mystery,
that is, Christ Himself, |
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Colossians 2:3
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in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom
and knowledge. |
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Colossians 2:4
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I say this so that no one will delude you with
persuasive argument. |
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Colossians 2:5
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For even though I am absent in body, nevertheless
I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good discipline and the stability
of your faith in Christ. |
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Colossians 2:6
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Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus
the Lord, so walk in Him, |
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Colossians 2:7
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having been firmly rooted and now being built
up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing
with gratitude. |
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Colossians 2:8
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See to it that no one takes you captive through
philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to
the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ. |
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Colossians 2:9
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For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells
in bodily form, |
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Colossians 2:10
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and in Him you have been made complete, and
He is the head over all rule and authority; |
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Colossians 2:11
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and in Him you were also circumcised with a
circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the
circumcision of Christ; |
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Colossians 2:12
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having been buried with Him in baptism, in which
you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised
Him from the dead. |
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Colossians 2:13
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When you were dead in your transgressions and
the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having
forgiven us all our transgressions, |
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Colossians 2:14
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having canceled out the certificate of debt
consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it
out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. |
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Colossians 2:15
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When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities,
He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him. |
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Colossians 2:16
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Therefore no one is to act as your judge in
regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath
day-- |
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Colossians 2:17
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things which are a mere shadow of what is to
come; but the substance belongs to Christ. |
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Colossians 2:18
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Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize
by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand
on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind, |
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Colossians 2:19
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and not holding fast to the head, from whom
the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments,
grows with a growth which is from God. |
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Colossians 2:20
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If you have died with Christ to the elementary
principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit
yourself to decrees, such as, |
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Colossians 2:21
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"Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!"
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Colossians 2:22
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(which all refer to things destined to perish
with use)--in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men? |
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Colossians 2:23
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These are matters which have, to be sure, the
appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment
of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence. |
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