Colossians 2:6-23
Alive with Christ

6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, [so] walk ye in him:

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7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

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8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

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9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

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10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

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11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

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12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with [him] through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

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13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

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14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

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15 [And] having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

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16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath [days]:

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17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body [is] of Christ.

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18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

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19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.

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20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

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21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;

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22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?

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23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.

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