1 For I want you to know how great a struggle I have about you, and those at Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in flesh.
2 So that their hearts may be encouraged, having been united together in love, and for all wealth of the full assurance of understanding, to knowledge of the mystery of the God and Father of the Christ.
3 In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4 And I say this so that not any man may delude you with persuasive speech.
5 For even though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your orderliness, and the steadfastness of your faith for Christ.
6 As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him,
7 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as ye were taught, abounding in it with thankfulness.
8 Take heed lest there will be any man taking you captive through the love of wisdom and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ.
9 Because in him all the fullness of the divinity dwells bodily.
10 And ye are men who have been made full in him, who is the head of every principal office and position of authority.
11 In whom also ye were circumcised a circumcision not made with hands, in the removal of the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of the Christ.
12 Having been buried with him in immersion, in which also ye were raised together through faith of the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
13 And you, being dead in transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you he made alive together with him, having forgiven us all the transgressions,
14 having erased the handwriting against us in the regulations that were hostile to us, and he has taken it up from the midst, having nailed it to the cross.
15 Having stripped the principal offices and the positions of authority, he exposed them openly, having triumphed over them by it.
16 Let not any man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths,
17 which are a shadow of the things coming, but the body is Christ's.
18 Let no man umpire against you insisting on self-mortification, and worship of the heavenly agents, intruding in things that he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,
19 and not holding to the head, from whom all the body, being supplied and held together through the connections and bonds, develops its growth from God.
20 If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why do ye submit to rules, as though living in the world?
21 Do not handle, nor taste, nor touch
22 (which are all things for consumption by use), according to the commandments and teachings of men?
23 Which having, are indeed a matter of wisdom in will-worship, and self-mortification, and austerity of the body--not in any value against indulgence of the flesh.
1 I wolde ye knewe what fyghtinge I have for youre sakes and for them of Laodicia and for as many as have not sene my parson in the flesshe
2 that their hertes myght be coforted and knet togedder in love and in all ryches of full vnderstondynge for to knowe ye mistery of God ye father and of Christ
3 in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4 This I saye lest eny man shuld begyle you with entysinge wordes.
5 For though I be absent in the flesshe yet am I present with you in the sprete ioyinge and beholdinge the order that ye kepe and youre stedfast fayth in Christ.
6 As ye have therfore receaved Christ Iesu the Lorde even so walke
7 roted and bylt in him and stedfaste in the fayth as ye have learned: and therin be plenteous in gevynge thankes.
8 Beware lest eny ma come and spoyle you thorow philosophy and disceatfull vanitie thorow the tradicions of me and ordinaunces after the worlde and not after christ.
9 For in him dwelleth all the fulnes of the godheed bodyly
10 and ye are complete in him which is the heed of all rule and power
11 in whom also ye are circucised with circumcision made mith out hondes by puttinge of the sinfull boddy of the flesshe thorow the circumcision yt is in Christ
12 in that ye are buryed with him thorow baptim in whom ye are also rysen agayne thorowe fayth that is wrought by the operacion of god which raysed him from deeth.
13 And ye which weare deed in synne thorow ye vncircucision of youre flesshe hath he quyckened wt him and hath forgeve vs all oure trespases
14 and hath put out ye handwritinge yt was agaynst vs cotayned in ye lawe writte and that hath he take out of the waye and hath fastened it to his crosse
15 and hath spoyled rule and power and hath made a shewe of the openly and hath triumphed over them in his awne persone.
16 Let no ma therfore trouble youre conscieces aboute meate and drynke or for a pece of an holydaye as the holydaye of the newe mone or of the sabboth dayes
17 which are nothinge but shaddowes of thynges to come: but the body is in Christ.
18 Let no man make you shote at a wroge (marke) which after his awne ymaginacion walketh in the humblenes and holynes of angels thinges which he never sawe: causlesse puft vp with his flesshly mynde
19 and holdeth not the heed wherof all the body by ioyntes and couples receaveth norisshment and is knet to gedder and encreaseth with the in creasynge that commeth of god.
20 Wherfore if ye be deed with Christ fro ordinaunces of the worlde why as though ye yet lived in the worlde are ye ledde with tradicios of them that saye?
21 Touche not tast not handell not:
22 which all perysshe wt the vsinge of the and are after the comaundmentes and doctrins of men
23 which thinges have the similitude of wisdome in chosen holynes and humblenes and in that they spare not the body and do the flesshe no worshype vnto his nede.